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Bringing Society Back In : Symbols, Practices, and Institutional Contradictions

Roger Friedland
- pp 232-263
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The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3599 citations till now.

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Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

Mark C. Suchman
- 01 Jul 1995 - 
TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.
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Historical institutionalism in comparative politics

Kathleen Thelen
- 25 Sep 1992 - 
TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of recent developments in historical institutionalism and assesses the progress in understanding institutional formation and change, drawing on insights from recent historical institutional work on icritical juncturesi and on ipolicy feedbacks.
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World society and the nation-state

John W. Meyer, +3 more
- 01 Jul 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the nation-state as a worldwide institution constructed by worldwide cultural and associational processes, developing four main topics: (1) properties of nation-states that result from their exogenously driven construction, including isomorphism, decoupling, and expansive structuration; (2) processes by which rationalistic world culture affects national states; (3) characteristics of world society that enhance the impact of world culture on national states and societies, including conditions favoring the diffusion of world models, expansion of world level associations, and rationalized scientific and professional
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Dynamics of Contention

Francesca Polletta, +3 more
- 01 Sep 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of contention in national disintegration and contention in the process of national mobilizations and their application in the context of national democratization, and conclude that "national disintegration, national disentanglement, and contention are the main causes of national disarray".
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Culture and cognition

Paul DiMaggio
- 01 Aug 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study identity, collective memory, social classification, and logics of action in the context of culture and its connections to identity and collective memory in cognitive psychology and social cognition.