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9 - The “Actors” of Modern Society:

The Cultural Construction of Social Agency (2000)

from Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

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

An analysis of the nature of modern “actors” or actorhood.Offers direct arguments about how the modern (European, now global) cultural system constructs the modern actor as an authorized agent for various interests. Seeing modern actorhood in this way helps greatly in explaining a number of otherwise anomalous or little analyzed features of modern individuals, organizations, and states.

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actorsactorhoodagencyotherhoodsocial construction
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 209 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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