meyer

John Meyer, PhD

  • Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
  • Professor of Education
  • FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy
  • CDDRL Affiliated Faculty

Department of Sociology
Stanford University
Bldg. 120, room 248
Stanford, CA 94305-2047

(650) 723-1868 (voice)
(650) 725-6471 (fax)

Biography

John Meyer is a professor of sociology (and by courtesy, education) emeritus, at Stanford; a faculty member at CDDRL; and a senior fellow, by courtesy, at FSI. He received his PhD from Columbia University, and taught there for several years before coming to Stanford. His research has focused on the spread of modern institutions around the world, and their impact on national states and societies. He is particularly interested in the spread and impact of scientific activity, and in the expansion and standardization of educational models. He has made many contributions to organizational theory (e.g., Organizational Environments, with W. R. Scott, Sage 1983), and to the sociology of education, developing lines of thought now called neoinstitutional theory. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on issues related to the impact of global society on national states and societies (e.g., Institutional Structure, co-authored with others, Sage 1987). Currently, he is completing a collaborative study of worldwide science and its impact on national societies (Drori, et al., Science in the Modern World Polity, Stanford, 2003), and is working on a study of the rise and impact of the worldwide human rights regime.

publications

Books
December 2006

Scientization: Making a World Safe for Organizing

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Books
December 2006

Foreword, "Reconstructing the University"

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Books
December 2006

Foreword, "The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory"

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