John Meyer

John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, emeritus.  He has contributed to institutional theories of the impact of changing wider – often global – models on the construction of modern individuals, organizations and national states.  He has studied global effects generally (World Society, Oxford 2009; Jepperson and Meyer, Institutional Theory, Cambridge 2021).  Particular foci have been on the worldwide expansion of education and science (Frank and Meyer, The University, Princeton 2020, and formal organizations (Bromley and Meyer, Hyper-Organization, Oxford 2015). The shift from earlier liberal and neoliberal models to post-liberal and sometimes reactionary ones is a more recent focus.