Governing Sustainable Development Goals: interactions, infrastructures, and institutions

Abstract

Since form is an analytical concept, the differentiation between form and non-form, and thus, between the patterned and non-patterned organization of social relations, is a matter of analytical approach. In the empirical world actors are rarely closed within a single set of social relationships and even those who participate in what we regard as closed relationships or structures, simultaneously have relationships outside any patterns we might observe. However, investigation of these complex relationships has been obstructed by the confusion resulting from the ambiguous definition of the informal economy, which rests on the concept of networks, but does not differentiate between