Title: Institutional structure :
Authors: Thomas, George M.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Physical description: 366 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: PART 1: Theoretical Issues -- Ontology and Rationalization in the Western Cultural Account / John W. Meyer, John Boli, and George M. Thomas -- PART 2: The World Polity and State Structure -- The World Polity and the Authority of the Nation-State / John W. Meyer -- World Polity Sources of Expanding State Authority and Organization, 1870-1970 / John Boli -- Regime Changes and State Power in an Intensifying World-State-System / George M. Thomas and John W. Meyer -- Structural Antecedents and Consequences of Statism / Francisco O. Ramirez and George M. Thomas -- PART 3: Constituting Nation and Citizen -- Human Rights or State Expansion? Cross-National Definitions of Constitutional Rights, 1870-1970 / John Boli -- Global Patterns of Educational Institutionalization / Francisco O. Ramirez and John Boli -- On the Union of States and Schools / Francisco O. Ramirez and John Boli -- World Polity Sources of National Welfare and Land Reform / George M. Thomas and Pat Lauderdale -- PART 4: Constructing the Modern Individual -- The Ideology of Childhood and the State: Rules Distinguishing Children in National Constitutions, 1870-1970 / John Boli and John W. Meyer -- Self and Life Course: Institutionalization and Its Effects / John W. Meyer -- The Political Construction of Rape / Francisco O. Ramirez -- PART 5: Rationalization and Collective Action -- Comparative Social Movements / Francisco O. Ramirez -- Revivalism, Nation-Building, and Institutional Change / George M. Thomas -- PART 6: The Possibility of A General Historical Theory -- Institutional Analysis / Francisco O. Ramirez.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Social institutions.; Social structure.; State, The.