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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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"Fitting In" or "Standing Out": Working-Class Students in UK Higher Education.
TL;DR: In this paper, a multilayered, sociological understanding of student identities that draws together social and academic aspects is presented. And the influence of widely differing academic places and spaces on student identities is explored.
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Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and Limits of Interviewing
Michèle Lamont,Ann Swidler +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that concern over whether attitudes correspond to behavior is an overly narrow and misguided question and instead consider what interviewing and other data gathering techniques are best suited for, and point out new methodological challenges, particularly concerning the incorporation of historical and institutional dimensions into interview-based studies.
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Diversity, Opportunity, and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education
Sigal Alon,Marta Tienda +1 more
TL;DR: This paper used four data sets to assess changes in the relative weights of test and performance-based merit criteria on college enrollment during the 1980s and 1990s and considered their significance for affirmative action.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
John W. Meyer,Brian Rowan +1 more
TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s: The Deinstitutionalization of an Organizational Form
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The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions, which suggests that organizations and the professors strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order.