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2 - Society without Culture:

A Nineteenth-century Legacy (1988)

from Part II - Institutional Theory: Its Role in Modern Social Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
By
J. Meyer
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

The post-Enlightenment evolution of models of national society and state.The development of ideas of individual and collective actorhood, and the corresponding peripheralization of the concept of culture.

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culturecultural modelssociologysocial theoryintellectual historyclassical social theory
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 27 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Wallerstein, Immanuel. (1980). Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750. Vol. II of The Modern World System. New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar

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