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8 - Reflections on Part III:

Levels of Analysis

from Part III - The Institutional Level of Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

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

Much social science still fails to employ a now standard philosophical and scientific conceptualization of levels of analysis.In so doing, it still largely avoids the multilevel reasoning appropriate for social science, instead maintaining dogmatic attachments to one or another level of analysis, especially an individual-level one.

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levels of analysisphilosophy of sciencephilosophy of social scienceindividualismmicrofoundations
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 196 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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