The Social Construction of the “Micro-Social”*

Abstract

The studies in this book usefully address the micro-social processes involved in the construction of modern institutionalized organization. They do not reach to the explanation of the foundations of this institutional system. Rather, they reflect now-global institutionalized foundations: the empowered, highly schooled, and professionalized individual engaged in highly legitimated and often scripted social action.

Citation

Meyer, J.W. (2019), "The Social Construction of the “Micro-Social”*", Haack, P., Sieweke, J. and Wessel, L. (Ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 409-418. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B033