Rethinking order : idioms of stability and destabilization 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 Back cover Idioms of stability and destabilization: introducing the concept of idiom to the epistemology of social analysis Nicole Falkenhayner Andreas Langenohl Johannes Scheu Doris Schweitzer Kacper Szulecki The function and functioning of idioms of stability and destabilization. Stability through probability and the destabilizing threat of societys other : some reflections on nineteenth century statistics Johannes Scheu Bad habits and the origins of sociology Bernhard Kleeberg Between engaged science and theorized practice: the concept of case in social work studies Andreas Langenohl Questioning orders. The flexibility of Internet time: network society and the fleeting stability of sciotechnical collectives Isabell Otto Order of the orderless: dissident identity between de stabilization and re stabilization Kacper Szulecki Political order of the multitude: Hobbes Spinoza and the Arab Spring Pawel Marczewski Rethinking order. I am inclined not to: circumventing contestation and competition Robert Seyfert Stability through indeterminacy: Jacques Derrida indefinite legal concepts and the topology of order Doris Schweitzer The English ruin(ed): an idiom of Victorian aesthetics Nicole Falkenhayner False enemies of stability in the political philosophy of the heterogeneous Tatiana Weiser