HELSINKI SEMINAR FOR GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS
You are cordially invited to attend our next seminar session with Prof. John Meyer (Stanford University) "Global Diffusion"
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 14:15-15:45 (refreshments from 14:00)
University main building (Unioninkatu 34), Auditorium XIV
The discussant is Prof. Henri Vogt (University of Turku).
Abstract:
Changes in world culture create contextual conditions increasing cross-national diffusion and structuring its character. Scientization disciplines the natural and social environments. Human empowerment and rights norms create a population of actors with much (standardized) agency. And an expanded (and standardized) educational system now at the center of social stratification everywhere links empowered humans with a common action frame. As a consequence, collective mobilizations of attitudes, opinions, and actions occur on an increasingly global scale. Institutionalized, this turns into a global expansion of formal organization in both domestic and international society. Both conflict and cooperation can readily shift to a global scale.
John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology (and, by courtesy, Education), emeritus, at Stanford. He has contributed to organizational theory, comparative education, and the sociology of education, developing sociological institutional theory. Since the 1970s, he has studied the impact of global society on national states and societies. More recently, he completed a collaborative study of worldwide science and its national effects and a project on the impact of globalization on organizational structures. He now studies the world human rights regime, world curricula in mass and higher education, and the worldwide expansion of formal organization.
Please see the seminar website for the full biography of Prof. Meyer: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/governanceandinstitutions/schedule/
As refreshment will be served, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation by sending an email to the seminar coordinator: Caroline Werner, caroline.werner at helsinki.