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7 - The Limiting Effects of Analytical Individualism:

Examples from Macrosocial Change (2007)

from Part III - The Institutional Level of Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

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

Discusses empirical examples showing how the preference for individual-level explanation – that is, for psychological, social-psychological, and microeconomic explanation – has limited the explanation of a wide range of macrosocial outcomes: of European economic history, of postindustrial development, of world economic development and globalization generally.

Keywords

levels of analysismethodological individualismcollective propertiescollective levelinstitutional levelEuropean modernitypostindustrial developmentglobalization
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 170 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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