John W. Meyer

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John W. Meyer is affiliated with the following schools: Northwestern University , Goshen College, Stanford University, University of Colorado, Columbia University

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John W. Meyer

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#107

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#153

Historical Rank

#56

USA Rank

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John W. Meyer's Degrees

PhD Sociology Northwestern University
Masters Sociology Northwestern University

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According to Wikipedia, John Wilfred Meyer is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas of education, organizations, and global and transnational sociology. He is best known for the development of the neo-institutional perspective on globalization, known as world society or World Polity Theory. In 2015, he became the recipient of American Sociological Association's highest honor - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.

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John W. Meyer's Published Works

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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony (1977) (22979)
World Society and the Nation‐State (1997) (3987)
Institutional conditions for diffusion (1993) (1826)
Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality (1984) (1694)
The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (2005) (1335)
The Effects of Education as an Institution (1977) (1090)
The “Actors” of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency* (2000) (955)
Institutional Environments and Organizations: Structural Complexity and Individualism (1994) (842)
World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980 (1992) (817)
World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor (2010) (629)
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets (1993) (593)
The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870–1990 (1997) (486)
Institutional and technical sources of organizational structure explaining the structure of educational organizations (1980) (478)
Explaining the Origins and Expansion of Mass Education (1985) (426)
Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change (2006) (414)
Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual (1987) (401)
The Legalization of the Workplace (1994) (392)
Globalization Sources and Effects on National States and Societies (2000) (392)
School Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century (1992) (312)
The World Educational Revolution, 1950-1970. (1977) (311)
Social environments and organizational accounting (1986) (286)
CENTRALIZATION, FRAGMENTATION, AND SCHOOL DISTRICT COMPLEXITY (1987) (278)
Reflections on Institutional Theories of Organizations (2007) (254)
Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualisms* (2011) (242)
Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986. (1991) (219)
University expansion and the knowledge society (2007) (208)
Organizations and Their Institutional Environments—Bringing Meaning, Values, and Culture Back In: Introduction to the Special Research Forum (2010) (205)
National Development and the World System: Educational, Economic, and Political Change, 1950-1970 (1979) (196)
Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930 (1979) (193)
International Human Rights Law and the Politics of Legitimation (2008) (188)
The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period* (2002) (187)
The Worldwide Expansion of “Organization” (2013) (171)
The Ideology of Childhood and the State: Rules Distinguishing Children in National Constitutions, 1870-1970 (1978) (165)
Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks (2010) (146)
“They Are All Organizations”: The Cultural Roots of Blurring Between the Nonprofit, Business, and Government Sectors (2017) (143)
High School Effects on College Intentions (1970) (142)
The Expansion of Due Process in Organizations (1988) (140)
Hyper-Organization: Global Organizational Expansion (2016) (131)
Student Achievement and National Economic Growth (2006) (131)
Worldwide Patterns in Academic Secondary Education Curricula (1996) (122)
Social Structure and Social Construction of Life Stages (1986) (118)
Sources of Rationalized Governance: Cross-National Longitudinal Analyses, 1985–2002 (2006) (118)
The Worldwide Rise of Human Rights Education (2007) (114)
The Expansion of the State (1984) (105)
Globalization: Theory and Trends (2007) (105)
The individualist polity and the prevalence of professionalized psychology: a cross-national study (1995) (101)
The effects of science on national economic development, 1970 to 1990 (2000) (92)
Modern law as a secularized and global model : Implications for the sociology of law (2002) (92)
World society : the writings of John W. Meyer (2010) (88)
On the celebration of rationality: Some comments on Boland and Pondy (1983) (87)
Kings or People (1981) (85)
Comparative Education: The Social Construction of the Modern World System. (1980) (84)
Environmental Linkages and Organizational Complexity: Public and Private Schools. (1984) (80)
What Counts as History: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula (2000) (80)
Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970–2008: A Cross-National Study (2011) (79)
The Worldwide Spread of Environmental Discourse in Social Studies, History, and Civics Textbooks, 1970–2008 (2011) (79)
The Institutionalization of Rational Organization@@@Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality. (1985) (78)
Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-National Analyses, 1975-2006 (2008) (76)
The Expansion of Mass Education in Botswana: Local and World Society Perspectives (1993) (70)
Convergence and Divergence in Development (1975) (69)
Global organization: Rationalization and actorhood as dominant scripts (2009) (68)
Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society, and the Individual. (1990) (62)
Effect of a Child's Sex on Adult Interpretations of its Behavior. (1972) (59)
World influences on human rights language in constitutions: A cross-national study (2012) (57)
Toward Post-National Societies and Global Citizenship (2012) (57)
World Society and the Globalization of Educational Policy (2016) (54)
The impact of the centralization of educational funding and control on state and local organizational governance (1979) (51)
Specification of Models for Organizational Effectiveness (1976) (50)
Education and Occupational Mobility: A Comparison of Polish and American Men (1979) (50)
World Models, National Curricula, and the Centrality of the Individual (2007) (49)
The Societal Consequences of Higher Education (2021) (48)
The University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion (2006) (43)
Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organizing (2006) (41)
Institutional and Organizational Rationalization in the Mental Health System (1985) (40)
Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University (2006) (39)
The rise of individual agency in conceptions of society: Textbooks worldwide, 1950–2011 (2017) (37)
Transnational Governance: Scientization: Making a world safe for organizing (2006) (35)
The University and the Global Knowledge Society (2020) (34)
4. The Changing Cultural Content of the Nation-State: A World Society Perspective (2018) (33)
The Content of the Curriculum (2000) (33)
Organizational Factors Affecting Legalization In Education (1981) (31)
Local variation in world society: six characteristics of global diffusion (2016) (31)
The Impact of The Open-Space School Upon Teacher Influence and Autonomy: The Effects of an Organizational Innovation. (1971) (31)
5: Education and Political Development (1975) (30)
Forms of Status Inconsistency (1971) (27)
Teaching versus Research: Sources of Misperceptions (1969) (26)
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World: Legitimating the transnational corporation in a stateless world society (2015) (26)
The Pyramid of Nonprofit Responsibility: The Institutionalization of Organizational Responsibility Across Sectors (2018) (25)
Notes on the Structure of Educational Organizations. Occasional Paper No. 3. (1975) (24)
Globalization (2000) (24)
Structural Determinants of Student Political Activity: A Comparative Interpretation. (1972) (22)
International Tests, National Assessments, and Educational Development (1970–2012) (2018) (22)
The Global Corporate Organization (2015) (21)
Economic and Political Effects on National Educational Enrollment Patterns (1971) (20)
Globalization (2007) (20)
Retail Redlining: Are Gasoline Prices Higher in Poor and Minority Neighborhoods? (2011) (20)
Universalizing the University in a World Society (2013) (19)
Comparative education policy research : a world society perspective (1987) (19)
Comment: Reflections: The Worldwide Commitment to Educational Equality (2001) (19)
Values Education in the Curriculum: Some Comparative Empirical Data (1988) (18)
Forming American Educational Policy with International Data: Lessons from the Sociology of Education (1996) (18)
SELECTION 9 – The Effects of the Institutionalization of Colleges in Society* (1972) (18)
Implications of an Institutional View of Education for the Study of Educational Effects (1987) (17)
The Organization Of Institutional Sectors (1982) (14)
Comparisons of Social Mobility in Different Socio-economic Systems (1984) (12)
Reflections: The Worldwide Commitment to Educational Equality (2001) (12)
Management models as popular discourse (2005) (11)
Constitutions as Ideology (1980) (11)
Sources and effects of decisions: A comment on Brunsson (1990) (10)
Studies of team teaching in the open-space school (1972) (9)
The contemporary identity explosion: Individualizing society in the post-war period (2002) (9)
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CONGLOMERATE FIRM IN THE 1980 s : THE DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL FORM * GERALDF . (2007) (8)
Empowered Actors, Local Settings, and Global Rationalization (2013) (8)
Hyper-Management: Neoliberal Expansions of Purpose and Leadership (2021) (7)
Political Structure and the World Economy@@@The Modern World-System II: Mecantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750. (1982) (7)
Chapter 13 Reflections on Rationalization, Actors, and Others (2019) (7)
A Reinterpretation of American Status Politics (1970) (7)
Constitutions in World Society: A New Measure of Human Rights (2017) (6)
Reflections on a Half-Century of Mennonite Change (2003) (6)
Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and Its Expansive Educational Effects (2022) (5)
The “Actors” of Modern Society: (2021) (5)
Globalization and the Curriculum (2000) (4)
Thinking about the World: Philosophy and Sociology (2015) (4)
The Social Construction of the “Micro-Social”* (2019) (3)
Afterword: fragmented organizations in the society of organizations (2017) (3)
Institutional The pyramid of nonprofit responsibilities: The institutionalization of organizational actorhood across sectors (2019) (3)
The Capitalist World-Economy.@@@National Development and the World System: Educational, Economic, and Political Change, 1950-1970. (1980) (2)
The University and the Global Knowledge Society. Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology. (2020) (2)
Equal Educational Opportunity. (1970) (2)
World Society and the Nation-State1 (2011) (2)
Organization and hyper-organization (2015) (2)
Society without Culture: (2021) (2)
World Influences on Human Rights in Constitutions: A Cross-national Study (2009) (2)
A Comparative and Historical Analysis of Mathematics and Science Curricula, 1800–1986 1 (2017) (2)
Conclusion: Accounting for a World Curriculum (2017) (1)
The Effects of College Quality and Size on Student Occupational Choice (1970) (1)
11. Analytical Individualism and the Explanation of Macrosocial Change (2007) (1)
Meyer Comment on Downey and Condron (2016) (1)
Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Social Construction of Reality (2000) (1)
The University: Interpreting Worldwide Expansion and Change (2007) (1)
Institutional Theory (2021) (1)
Institutions, Institutional Effects, and Institutionalism (1991) (2021) (1)
Illiberal Reactions to Higher Education (2022) (1)
The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Politics.Thomas E. Patterson , Robert D. McClure (1977) (1)
CRATERING IN GREENLAND ICECAP SNOW. (1970) (0)
Reflections on the Global Knowledge Society (2020) (0)
Accountability : Elementary Secontary Education : Evalu 4 Ition ' rtiterii : Institutional Administration : Institutional CharaCteristiCS : Organizatichal : Theories : * School . District Autonomy : * Schpol Districts (2011) (0)
Dialectics: non-rational integration (2015) (0)
Background: A Perspective on the Curriculum and Curricular Research (2017) (0)
Operation Mine Shaft: Distribution of Natural and Artificial Ejecta Resulting from Detonation of 100-Ton TNT Charge on Granite: Mineral Rock Event (1973) (0)
3. The University Population in World Society and University Organizations (2020) (0)
Theory Chapter One Enter the Virtual State (0)
5. The Human Actor and the Expansion of Academic Knowledge (2020) (0)
Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economic Systems.Charles E. Lindblom (1979) (0)
4. The Societal Culture of (2020) (0)
cross-national study World influences on human rights language in constitutions : A (2012) (0)
Reflections on Part II: (2021) (0)
Institutional Theory and World Society (2009) (2021) (0)
The Expanded University and the Knowledge Society (2020) (0)
2. The Worldwide Instantiation of the University (2020) (0)
The Expansion of the Autonomy of Youth: Responses of the Secondary School to Problems of Order in the 1960s (2015) (0)
Organizations as actors (2015) (0)
Cultural foundations: science, empowerment, education (2015) (0)
Interpreting Worldwide Expansion and Change in Universities (2005) (0)
Education and the Differentiation of Childhood: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930. (1978) (0)
The Mind of God (1999) (0)
Theory Enter the Virtual State (0)
The University as a World Institution (2020) (0)
The Limiting Effects of Analytical Individualism: (2021) (0)
Expanded Education and Global Integration: Solidarity and Conflict (2021) (0)
Transmitting culture: law, accounting, professionalism (2015) (0)
Social Control in a Stateless World Society (2015) (0)
6. The Expanded University and the Knowledge Society (2020) (0)
Norms, culture, and world politics: insights from sociology's institutionalism Marth a Finnemore (1996) (0)
Christopher K. Chase-Dunn Circa 1970 (2017) (0)
Education as Cultural Frame (2021) (0)
The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior.John L. Hammond (1984) (0)
Book Review:The New Testament in Its Literary Environment David E. Aune (1989) (0)
The Pyramid of Nonprofit Responsibility: The Institutionalization of Organizational Responsibility Across Sectors (2018) (0)
Cost-Sharing and Project Financing (1993) (0)
Thinking about the World (2018) (0)
Book Review:Education in Modern Society Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1986) (0)
Controlling Cost and Quality through Clinical Pathways: One Cancer Center's Experience (1991) (0)
The Societal Culture of University Knowledge (2020) (0)
Anteiorganixati ' on 4 Rerationships (2007) (0)
The Worldwide Instantiation of the University (2020) (0)
Afterword: organizing transnational accountability (2008) (0)

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