Science in the Modern World Polity : Institutionalization and Globalization

Gili S Drori

ISBN 10: 0804744920 / ISBN 13: 9780804744928

Edité par Stanford University Press Dez 2002, 2002

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Neuware - This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on national societies. It examines how this world scientific system and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of institutional spheres--the economy, political systems, human rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms. >.

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• Titre: Science in the Modern World Polity : Institutionalization and Globalization
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Dez 2002
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804744920
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804744928
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 228 L x 154 H x 23 P (en millimètres) 228 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 23 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 526 grammes

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Synopsis

This book presents empirical studies of the rise, expansion, and influence of scientific discourse and organization throughout the world, over the past century. Using quantitative cross-national data, it shows the impact of this scientized world polity on national societies. It examines how this world scientific system and national reflections of it have influenced a wide variety of institutional spheres-the economy, political systems, human rights, environmentalism, and organizational reforms.

The authors argue that the triumph of science across social domains and around the world is due to its institutionalized cultural authority rather than to its instrumental utility for societies or for their dominant elites. Thus, following the Stanford approach to institutional theory in sociology, the book emphasizes the symbolic or religious role science plays in the modern world.

À propos de l?auteur

Gili S. Drori is Lecturer in the International Relations Program, Stanford University. John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Stanford University. Francisco O. Ramirez is Professor of Education at Stanford University. Evan Schofer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.