Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy 12 Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas 12 and History of Ideas 12 ) s. d e ( i k s Adriana Mica / Jan Winczorek / Rafał Wi´sniewski w e (eds.) i n Adriana Mica / Jan Winczorek / Rafał Wis´niewski (eds.) ´s i W Sociologies of Formality and Informality R. Sociologies of Formality / k The way sociology frames the relation The Editors e r between formality and informality is not Adriana Mica is Assistant Professor at the o and Informality z only complex and multifaceted, but has University of Warsaw. Her interests con- c also evolved over time. This volume offers cern the diffusion of paraformality in the n i contributions by international authors field of short-term loans in Poland, and W tchaal tfr iallmusitnrgaste a dnids tpinrecste tnypt veas roiof tuhse soitreesti o-f tphoep tuylpaetiso onf moragnaangizeamtieonnta iln f aRiolumrea inni ad.og a / J. inquiry. It proposes a typology compris- Jan Winczorek is Assistant Professor at the c i ing: the sociology of informally embed- University of Warsaw. He has a vivid inter- M ded formality, the sociology of formally est in the sociology of law and theoretical A. embedded informality, the sociology of sociology. the interaction between formality and Rafał Wi´sniewski is Assistant Professor at y informality and the sociology of the emer- Cardinal Stefan Wyszyn´ski University in t gence and transformation of formality and Warsaw. He is Vice-President of the Polish li a informality. Sociological Association and specializes in m the sociology of culture and intercultural r communication. o f n I d n a y t i l a m r o F f o s e i g o l o i c o S 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 Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sociologies of formality and informality / Adriana Mica, Jan Winczorek, Rafał Wiśniewski, (eds.). pages cm. — (Studies in social sciences, philosophy and history of ideas, 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, 1977- HM826.S63 2015 306--dc23 2015009648 This Publication was financially supported by the Polish Sociological Association. ISSN 2196-0151 ISBN 978-3-631-65328-9 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-04521-5 (E-Book) DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-04521-5 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2015 All rights reserved. Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com 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 8 Contents 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