Science in the Modern World Polity

Science in the Modern World Polity

EnglishHardback
Drori Gili S.
Stanford University Press
EAN: 9780804744911
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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.

EAN 9780804744911
ISBN 0804744912
Binding Hardback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date December 6, 2002
Pages 400
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United States
Authors Drori Gili S.; Meyer John W.; Ramirez Francisco O.; Schofer Evan
Illustrations 10 illustrations
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