* This paper was written under the sponsorship of the Alfred A. Taubman Program in
American Institutions. I am grateful to the Director of the Program, John E. Jackson, for his …

This collection, combining the proceeds of a conference sponsored by a Problems of the
Discipline grant from the American Sociological Association with a number of reprinted …

This is an important book by two promi-nent advocates of the neo-institutional school of
organizational analysis. Meyer and Scott are organization theorists in a broad …

Black interviewers for sociological researchers are escorted out of the ghetto in Detroit. Six
out of seven middle-and working-class, black and white, potential re spondents refuse to be …

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is
undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first …

Sociology's interest in organizations is customarily traced to three sources: the Harvard-
based human relations school, the Weberian tradition descending from Parsons through …

Institutional theories of organizations provide a rich, complex view of orgaн nizations. In
these theories, organizations are influenced by normative presн sures, sometimes arising …

A LARGE proportion of the people in our society live together in families, who carry on a life
which, though constrained■ within limits set by the mores and by law, reflects the …

A principal tenet of modern social and economic theory has long been that a large
proportion of the production and distribution of goods and services takes place through …

The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all
bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or …