week1_Kelemtrans_Pengantar

• Cultural approach
– Individuals as utility satisficers: the choice of a course of
action depends on the interpretation of a situation rather
than on purely instrumental calculation
– Individuals as rationally bounded actors: their behavior is
not fully strategic but bounded by their own worldview
– Institutions provide moral or cognitive templates for
interpretation and action
– Institutions affect identities, self-images and preferences
of the actors
– Institutions are collectively constructed and taken-forgranted
to avoid scrutiny