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Stability is at the core of every discussion of order, organization or institutionalization. From an »inside« perspective, the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In contrast, in critical discourses instability (e.g. through ambiguity or non-control) is located at the outside of the social order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical structure as »idioms of stability and destabilization«, the articles try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and institutions in social and cultural studies be contested by this change of perspective?

Warum spielt für die entstehende Soziologie die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Recht eine zentrale Rolle? Und warum ist dies heute nicht mehr der Fall? Die genealogische Untersuchung zeigt, dass der Grund hierfür in den gegenseitigen Bezugnahmen von Privatrechtswissenschaft und Soziologie liegt. Denn die Art und Weise, wie ausgehend vom 19. Jahrhundert angesichts konkreter Problemlagen aus juristischer Perspektive das Recht als gesellschaftliches Phänomen adressiert wird, spiegelt sich in den frühen Soziologien von Émile Durkheim, Ferdinand Tönnies und Max Weber wider. Dies mündet in eine gegenseitige Abgrenzung, die für die Zukunft Recht und Soziologie in ein problematisches Verhältnis zueinander setzt.

Stability is at the core of every discussion of order, organization or institutionalization. From an »inside« perspective, the stability of each order-constituting element is assumed. In contrast, in critical discourses instability (e.g. through ambiguity or non-control) is located at the outside of the social order as its negative. By treating this argumentative symmetrical structure as »idioms of stability and destabilization«, the articles try to rethink order: How can we describe structures from a perspective in which instability, non-control and irrationality are not contrary to ordering systems, but contribute to their stability? How might the notions of identity, knowledge and institutions in social and cultural studies be contested by this change of perspective?