The New York Philharmonic doesn't need to be hip, but it requires some institutional personality.
It seems intended to announce a change of institutional personality, from genteel to rugged, and perhaps from marginal to underground or something close -- or, as some have suggested, from serious to hip.
The fact that institutional and personality issues can play roles is not surprising, given the complex dynamic social processes involved.
With a whopping 2,200 employees, it has become a giant memorial of the peaceful revolution of 1989.Preventing a solution to such problems are some strong personalities, institutional interests and ideological arguments.
Although Jürgen Habermas criticizes Schutz's account of the life-world for being "abridged in a culturalistic fashion" and not addressing institutional orders and personality structures (Habermas 1987, 2 126 132), it would seem that Schutz himself delimits his own work in just this fashion.
While a coalition of youth, human rights activists and Islamists demanded economic and political reform, virtually all of the country's major personalities and institutional groups, including respected journalists and popular artists, refused to bandwagon on the protests.
The army under General Kayani wanted to protect its institutional interests, not one personality, he said.
"They may have different goals, ideologies and personalities, but the institutional foundations of their powers is basically the same".
Grant also tells a story of institutional dysfunction and how incompatible personalities or autocratic leadership can lead to bad decision-making, or a lack thereof, and an additional story of old media grappling with new and an accelerated pace and increased workload that guarantee that mistakes will not only be made but can easily stay made.
For instance, discrepancies arose between IRBs that appeared to reflect differences in institutional culture and history, and personalities of chairs and/or vocal members, more than in local community values per se, and thus do not seem to be the intent of the regulations.
