This book brings together some of Meyer's widely-scattered work, reviewing four decades of scholarship, and adding several original pieces from his currentwork. It gathers substantive commentary on social processes, from stratification to globalization to socialization, and on key social institutions, from science to religion to law to education. INDICE: Part I: Overview; 1: Gili S. Drori and Georg Krücken: World Society: A Theory and a Research Program in Context; 2: John W. Meyer: Reflections: Institutional Theory and World Society; Part II: Concepts and Processes; 3:John W. Meyer, John Boli, and George M. Thomas: Rationalization: Ontology andRationalization in the Western Cultural Account; 4: John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan: Myth and Ritual: Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth; 5: John W. Meyer and Ronald L. Jepperson: Actorhood: The 'Actors' of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency; 6: David Strang and John W. Meyer: Diffusion: Institutional Conditions for Diffusion; 7: John W. Meyer: Globalization: Sources and Effects on National States and Societies; Part III: Applications; 8: John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and FranciscoO. Ramirez: The Nation-State: World Society and the Nation-State; 9: John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez: Education: The World Institutionalization of Education; 10: John W. Meyer, David J. Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Tuma: Environment: the Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990; 11: John W. Meyer: Management: Globalization and the Expansion and Standardization of Management; 12: Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer: Science: World Society and the Authority and Empowermentof Science; 13: John W. Meyer: Human Rights: World Society, the Welfare State, and the Life Course: An Institutionalist Perspective; 14: David J. Frank andJohn W. Meyer: The Individual: The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period; 15: Elizabeth Heger Boyle and John W. Meyer: Law: Modern Law as a Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law; 16: John W. Meyer: The European Union: The European Union and the Globalization of Culture; 17: John W. Meyer: Universities: the University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion; Part IV: Bibliography of Meyer's Writings
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959343-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés