The institutional logics approach is a powerful lens with which to examine and understand contexts in which norms and conceptions are multiple, unclear or in flux. While logics at the societal level have been well elaborated and are, in the most part, widely understood and accepted, at the field level logics are not necessarily so clear. Field frames distort, merge and confuse the societal logic as field actors negotiate, rebalance, bridge and interpret logics in a recursively constitutive process. We review research in two institutionally complex fields—higher education and healthcare - that employs an institutional logics lens. We identify and categorize institutional logics arising in these two fields and ask how these field-level logics relate to each other and to societal-level ideal-type logics. We ask what roles ideologies play in mediating relations between the field-level logics and what are the mechanisms by which this happens. We find that, at the field level, societal logics can appear as field-level instantiations or merge to form hybrids. New field-level logics can also emerge, but often these are confused with ideologies, thus limiting the theory-building potential of the institutional logics approach. We identify and begin to resolve confusion between logics and ideologies, highlighting the role of ideologies in mediating the relationships between logics at the field level. We advocate for, and pave the way towards, a new research agenda enabled by a flatter ontology of institutional logics that sees a horizontal relationship between logics as well as a vertical relationship between logics and actors.

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走向更平坦的制度逻辑本体论：逻辑如何在制度复杂的情况下联系起来

制度逻辑方法是一个强大的镜头，可以用来检查和理解规范和概念是多重的、不明确的或不断变化的环境。虽然社会层面的逻辑已经得到很好的阐述，并且在很大程度上得到了广泛的理解和接受，但在现场层面的逻辑却不一定如此清晰。场域框架扭曲、合并和混淆了社会逻辑，因为场域参与者在递归构成过程中协商、重新平衡、桥接和解释逻辑。我们回顾了两个制度复杂领域——高等教育和医疗保健——采用制度逻辑视角的研究。我们对这两个领域中出现的制度逻辑进行识别和分类，并询问这些领域层面的逻辑如何相互关联以及如何与社会层面的理想类型逻辑相关。我们询问意识形态在调解场级逻辑之间的关系中扮演什么角色，以及发生这种情况的机制是什么。我们发现，在场级，社会逻辑可以表现为场级实例化或合并形成混合体。新的场级逻辑也可能出现，但这些逻辑往往与意识形态相混淆，从而限制了制度逻辑方法的理论构建潜力。我们识别并开始解决逻辑和意识形态之间的混淆，强调意识形态在调解现场层面逻辑之间关系中的作用。我们提倡并为新的研究议程铺平道路，该议程由更扁平的制度逻辑本体论实现，该本体论看到逻辑之间的水平关系以及逻辑与参与者之间的垂直关系。