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John Meyer  

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  • American sociologist John Meyer has been a central figure in the development of neoinstitutional or sociological institutional theory. Along with a large number of collaborators, he has contributed important ideas about education's institutional effects on society, the expansion of mass schooling, and the nature of world society. [Source: Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide; Meyer, John]

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