Institutional Theory - The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities

Informationen zum Autor Ronald L. Jepperson is Associate Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at the University of Tulsa, where he taught social science, philosophy, and critical thinking to undergraduates. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of Washington, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the European University Institute. John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Stanford University. His research has focused on comparative sociology, education, and formal organizations, employing and developing neo-institutional theory, emphasizing the dependence of modern social structure on wider and often global cultural frameworks. He has published widely and received many academic honors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Credits; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction: cultural institutionalism; Part II. Institutional Theory: Its Role in Modern Social Analysis; 2. Society without culture (1988); 3. Institutions, institutional effects, and institutionalism (1991); 4. The development and application of sociological neo-institutionalism (2002); 5. Reflections on Part II: institutional theory; Part III. The Institutional Level of Analysis: 6. Multiple levels of analysis and the limitations of methodological individualisms (2011); 7. The limitations illustrated: examples from the research literature on macrosocial change (2007); 8. Reflections on Part III: levels of analysis; Part IV. Institutions of Modernity and Post-Modernity: The Construction of Actors: 9. The 'actors' of modern society: the cultural construction of social agency (2000); 10. Reflections: institutional theory and world society (2009); 11. Reflections on Part IV: the construction of actors; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Concluding reflections: evolving cultural models in global and national society.

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• Autori: Ronald L. Jepperson, Ronald L. (University of Tulsa) Jepperson, Ronald L. (University of Tulsa) Meyer Jepperson, John W. Meyer, John W. (Stanford University Meyer, Meyer John W.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781107435285
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43528-5
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Società; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Sociology, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social research & statistics, Institutions and learned societies: general, Social research and statistics, Institutions & learned societies: general