Adriana Mica
Biographic Data
| ID | 367368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Mica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mica |
| SIGNATURE | MICA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0823-2645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sweet, but confusing
We develop the idea of a ‘taste of failure’ as a critical lens for understanding how the inherent contradictions of policy-making are perceived. We set out a typology (bitter, sweet, guilty (pleasures), flat, and cruel (optimism)), further focusing on ‘sweet failure’ in Polish disability policy as a marker of problematic palatability: the paradox of bad policy-good politics. Policy studies often examine ‘successful failure’ in domains, where pres…
Harnessing Ignorance
Fracasopolicy
Failure Privilege in Policymaking
Who gets to benefit from failure is a hot topic in recent research on science and innovation. This article articulates the phenomenon of failure privilege on the terrain of public policy, that is, circumstantial and institutionally ingrained dispositions to use policy downfalls, derailments, and crises as resources of policy action, tools of integration, and dynamism. Building on analyses of policy failures, the article advances a typology of thr…
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
The unanticipated consequences of social action
Theories and social mechanisms
Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended
Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing in social sciences. Indeed, in the last few years, the study of the unintended has evidently moved from t…
Workshop Review
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
The unintended consequences in new economic sociology
The idea of unintended consequences of social action constitutes one of the core meta-assumptions of new economic sociology. Yet neither its US nor its European branch seem to make a direct statement about this. This state of affairs appears to be the result of various cumulative circumstances, such as the role played by the competition from other meta-assumptions which address similar or related issues and the rather general treatment of the uni…
Imagined futures
Beckert’s book makes the argument that capitalist dynamics are grounded in processes of imagining the future and of creating and revising expectations that motivate actors to engage in economic act
Emerging from Turbulence
Unintended Consequences
Sociologies of Formality and Informality
status: Published
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
The unintended consequences in new economic sociology
The idea of unintended consequences of social action constitutes one of the core meta-assumptions of new economic sociology. Yet neither its US nor its European branch seem to make a direct statement about this. This state of affairs appears to be the result of various cumulative circumstances, such as the role played by the competition from other meta-assumptions which address similar or related issues and the rather general treatment of the uni…
Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended
Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing in social sciences. Indeed, in the last few years, the study of the unintended has evidently moved from t…
Unintended Consequences
Sociologies of Formality and Informality
status: Published
Imagined futures
Beckert’s book makes the argument that capitalist dynamics are grounded in processes of imagining the future and of creating and revising expectations that motivate actors to engage in economic act
Emerging from Turbulence
Workshop Review
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
The unintended consequences in new economic sociology
The idea of unintended consequences of social action constitutes one of the core meta-assumptions of new economic sociology. Yet neither its US nor its European branch seem to make a direct statement about this. This state of affairs appears to be the result of various cumulative circumstances, such as the role played by the competition from other meta-assumptions which address similar or related issues and the rather general treatment of the uni…
The unanticipated consequences of social action
Theories and social mechanisms
Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended
Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing in social sciences. Indeed, in the last few years, the study of the unintended has evidently moved from t…
Ignorance as an Outcome of Categorizations
The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignorance as either “native state,” “lost realm,” or “strategic ploy.” In all three, ignorance is an unalienable part of social action. The case of Polish academic research on refugees before an…
Failure Privilege in Policymaking
Who gets to benefit from failure is a hot topic in recent research on science and innovation. This article articulates the phenomenon of failure privilege on the terrain of public policy, that is, circumstantial and institutionally ingrained dispositions to use policy downfalls, derailments, and crises as resources of policy action, tools of integration, and dynamism. Building on analyses of policy failures, the article advances a typology of thr…
Fracasopolicy
Harnessing Ignorance
Sweet, but confusing
We develop the idea of a ‘taste of failure’ as a critical lens for understanding how the inherent contradictions of policy-making are perceived. We set out a typology (bitter, sweet, guilty (pleasures), flat, and cruel (optimism)), further focusing on ‘sweet failure’ in Polish disability policy as a marker of problematic palatability: the paradox of bad policy-good politics. Policy studies often examine ‘successful failure’ in domains, where pres…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Positive economics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ignorance (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)