institutionalist
Speech parts
1. institutionalist - Noun
2. institutionalist - Adjective
Meaning
institutionalist (comparative more institutionalist, superlative most institutionalist)
Of, pertaining to, or following institutionalism
institutionalist (plural institutionalists)
An adherent of institutionalism (in various senses)
Synonyms
Examples
I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.
In an interview late in life Parsons recalled his conversation with Joseph Schumpeter about the institutionalist methodological position, the following way: "An economist like Schumpeter, by contrast, would absolutely have none of that.
That would be a different kettle of fish for an institutionalist like Barr, and almost certainly cross his “limits.”
For the same reasons (and for several other reasons in addition) he was unable to accept the institutionalist solution.
The Amherst Papers also reveal that Parsons did not agree with his institutionalist teachers, since he writes in the Amherst papers that technological development and moral progress are two structurally independent empirical processes.
But it is also deeply institutionalist in a lot of ways.