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Sociologies of Formality and Informality
STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY
AND HISTORY OF IDEAS
Edited by Andrzej Rychard
Advisory Board
Joanna Kurczewska,
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Henryk Domański,
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Szymon Wróbel,
Artes Liberales College, University of Warsaw
VOLUME 12
Adriana Mica / Jan Winczorek / Rafał Wiśniewski (eds.)
Sociologies of Formality and
Informality
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Sociologies of formality and informality / Adriana Mica, Jan Winczorek, Rafał
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ISSN 2196-0151 ; volume 12)
ISBN 978-3-631-65328-9
1. Social institutions. 2. Social systems. 3. Organizational sociology. 4. Sociol-
ogy—Philosophy. I. Mica, Adriana. II. Winczorek, Jan. III. Wiśniewski, Rafał,
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Acknowledgements
Some of the edited papers in this volume were presented at Formality and Infor-
mality: From Decoupling to Entanglement. Workshop on the Formal and the Infor-
mal in Law, Institutions and Economy, a scholarly conference that was organized
by the Polish Sociological Association (Sociology of Law Section and Warsaw
Department) and the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Law and Administration
and Institute of Applied Social Sciences), with the support of the Ministry of Sci-
ence and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, and which took place on
13–14 May 2013 in Warsaw. This was the first occasion for discussing some of
the ideas and concepts which were further developed in this volume. It was then
followed by a period of intense writing and consulting between the editors and
the selected and invited contributors to this project. We hope that the ensuing
volume gives justice to all these efforts, original ideas and the scholarly potential
of the theme undertaken by the edited work.
The publication of the book has been made possible thanks to the support
from a number of institutions, including the Polish Sociological Association and
the University of Warsaw, and the contribution to, and supervision of, the manu-
script works by Barbara Damentka, Jarosław Kilias and Michael Landry. Last
but not least, the editors would like to thank the participants in the workshop
discussions and the contributing authors for taking part in this book project
and for their input to the conceptualizing of various sociologies of formality and
informality.
Contents
Adriana Mica, Jan Winczorek and Rafał Wiśniewski
Sociologies of Formality and Informality..................................................................9
Part I: The Sociology of Informally Embedded Formality ...................................17
Robert Dingwall
Formality in the Interactional Study of Organizations ..........................................19
Grażyna Skąpska and Grzegorz Bryda
Empirically Grounded Rule of Law .........................................................................35
Part II: The Sociology of Formally Embedded Informality ..................................57
Liela Groenewald
Understanding Informality: Conceptual Lessons from Informal
Settlement in Southern Africa ..................................................................................59
Stef Adriaenssens, Dieter Verhaest and Jef Hendrickx
Lineland and the Underground Economy: The Multidimensionality
of Informal Work by Secondary Education Students ............................................75
Part III: The Sociology of the Interaction between
Formality and Informality ......................................................................................103
Barbara A. Misztal
Configurations of Informality and Formality in Contemporary Society ........105
Mikko Lagerspetz
When Formal and Informal Rules Meet: The Four Sets of Rules of the
Estonian Language and Minority Regime .................................................................127
Hans-Joachim Lauth
Rule of Law and Informal Institutions ..................................................................149
Part IV: The Sociology of the Emergence and Transformation
of Formality and Informality .................................................................................173
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Timothy Eccles
Identifying a Formality Hinterland: Trans-informality and
Meta-formality Within UK “Better Regulation” Discourses .............................175
Aleksandra Herman
The Reconfiguration of Power as a Legitimization of Informal
Political Actions in Local-Level Politics in Contemporary Poland ..................207
Francisco Linares
Social Networks, Social Norms and Workers’ Resistance:
A Computational Simulation Analysis .................................................................229
Contributors .............................................................................................................255
