Ronald L. Jepperson is Associate Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at the University of Tulsa, where he taught social science, philosophy, and critical thinking to undergraduates. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of Washington, and a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the European University Institute.
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.
