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

Autor Ronald L. Jepperson, John W. Meyer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2021
Over the past three decades, Meyer, Jepperson, and colleagues have contributed to the development of one of the leading approaches in social theory, by analyzing the cultural frameworks that have shaped modern organizations, states, and identities. Bringing together key articles and new reflections, this volume collects the essential theoretical ideas of 'sociological neoinstitutionalism.' It clarifies the core ideas and situates them within social theory writ large. Among other topics, the authors discuss the changing nature of the “actors” that have operated within contemporary social structure. The book concludes with the evolving frameworks that have structured social activity in the post–World War II period of 'embedded liberalism,' in the more recent neoliberal period, and in an emergent post-liberal period that appears to be a radical departure.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107435285
ISBN-10: 1107435285
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 150 x 230 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

'Despite its influence, neoinstitutional theory has long been known by its parts, with organizational theorists focusing one strand and political sociologists on another. Institutional Theory, a collection of foundational and in some case little known essays and new reflective chapters by the theory's progenitor, John Meyer, and one of its most gifted expositors, Ron Jepperson, is the first volume to present institutional theory as a single coherent approach to social analysis, with compelling results. Because most work in institutional theory has been published in conventional journal-article format, using unpretentious language and familiar comfortably positivist methods, it has been easy to underestimate the extent to which it represents a fundamentally radical break with received theory, challenging and reworking such basic categories as action and agency, levels of analysis, and organization in ways that will defamiliarize and reconstitute the reader's understanding of the social world. This welcome volume will be a critically important resource for social theory for many years to come.' Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, New York University
'Starting as a movement against mainstream realistic views of actorhood, neoinstitutional theory has established itself as sociology's core paradigm which tells us what makes it distinct in the family of the social and economic sciences. This collection of milestone essays demonstrates this achievement in all its depth and ramifications.' Richard Münch, Senior Professor for Theory of Society and Comparative Macrosociology, Zeppelin University
'We have waited decades for a book long treatment of new institutional theory to be published. Simply put, the Jepperson-Meyer statement is a gem that was worth the wait. It presents many of the most important statements of the theory, a summary of the theory's substantial research program, and renewed theoretical analysis with a proposal for a reinvigorated empirical project.' Neil Fligstein, Class of 1939 Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley
'Jepperson and Meyer expound the hugely influential institutional approach to understanding the individual, the corporation, and nation-state as cultural projects. These institutions arose by historical happenstance to become part of a global project that has culturally aligned societies around the world. The theory is not so much an alternative to prevailing theories of politics, structures, power, and self-interest as a corrective to all contemporary theorizing. This sophisticated, witty, volume theorizes not only where modern global society came from but, importantly, where it is going.' Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
'While modern common sense takes actors for granted, social theory must also look inside and beyond the black box of actorhood. In this important book, Jepperson and Meyer show how modern individuals, organizations and states are constructed from cultural models. They delineate and carefully elaborate a compelling theoretical account that spans multiple levels of analysis and provides illuminating insights into contemporary world society and its cultural-institutional framework.' Boris Holzer, Professor of General Sociology and Macrosociology, University of Konstanz

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Comprehensively collects the essential theoretical ideas of 'sociological neo-institutionalism', one of the leading approaches in social theory.