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  • 9 - The “Actors” of Modern Society:

  • from Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors
  • Ronald L. Jepperson, University of Tulsa, John W. Meyer, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Institutional Theory
    Published online:
    22 March 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 209-242

  • Summary

    An analysis of the nature of modern “actors” or actorhood.Offers direct arguments about how the modern (European, now global) cultural system constructs the modern actor as an authorized agent for various interests. Seeing modern actorhood in this way helps greatly in explaining a number of otherwise anomalous or little analyzed features of modern individuals, organizations, and states.

  • 10 - Institutional Theory and World Society (2009)

  • from Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors
  • Ronald L. Jepperson, University of Tulsa, John W. Meyer, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Institutional Theory
    Published online:
    22 March 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 243-280

  • Summary

    Reflections on how sociological neoinstitutionalism has been used to understand the rise, nature, and impact of the modern world order as itself a society. Discussion of globalization, and large-scale social change, from this perspective. Includes a discussion of Anglo-European modernity as a quasi-religious system.