Sociologies of Formality and Informality

Adriana Mica is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. Her interests concern the diffusion of paraformality in the field of short-term loans in Poland, and the types of organizational failure in dog population management in Romania.Jan Winczorek is Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. He has a vivid interest in the sociology of law and theoretical sociology.Rafał Wiśniewski is Assistant Professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He is Vice-President of the Polish Sociological Association and specializes in the sociology of culture and intercultural communication.

• Contents: Adriana Mica/Jan Winczorek/Rafał Wiśniewski: Sociologies of Formality and Informality – Robert Dingwall: Formality in the Interactional Study of Organizations – Grażyna Skąpska/Grzegorz Bryda: Empirically Grounded Rule of Law – Liela Groenewald: Understanding Informality: Conceptual Lessons from Informal Settlement in Southern Africa – Stef Adriaenssens/Dieter Verhaest/Jef Hendrickx: Lineland and the Underground Economy: The Multidimensionality of Informal Work by Secondary Education Students – Barbara A. Misztal: Configurations of Informality and Formality in Contemporary Society – Mikko Lagerspetz: When Formal and Informal Rules Meet: The Four Sets of Rules of the Estonian Language and Minority Regime – Hans-Joachim Lauth: Rule of Law and Informal Institutions – Timothy Eccles: Identifying a Formality Hinterland: Trans-informality and Meta-formality Within UK «Better Regulation» Discourses – Aleksandra Herman: The Reconfiguration of Power as a Legitimization of Informal Political Actions in Local-Level Politics in Contemporary Poland – Francisco Linares: Social Networks, Social Norms and Workers’ Resistance: A Computational Simulation Analysis.