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Change in Societal Institutions

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Maureen T. Hallinan

    1. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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  2. David M. Klein

    1. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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  3. Jennifer Glass

    1. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jennifer Glass, David M. Klein
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Decline of Occupations

    • Teresa A. Sullivan
    Pages 13-31

  4. Women, Work, and Family

    • Catherine E. Ross, John Mirowsky
    Pages 33-47

  5. Gender and the Structural Transformation of the Legal Profession in the United States and Canada

    • John Hagan
    Pages 49-69

  6. The Changing Composition of Schools

    • Cora Bagley Marrett
    Pages 71-90

  7. Single Parents and the Schools

    • Joyce L. Epstein
    Pages 91-121

  8. The Changing Contours of the Teaching Profession

    • Barbara Heyns
    Pages 123-141

  9. Contradiction and Change in Organized Religion

    • Lawrence A. Young, Richard A. Schoenherr
    Pages 143-168

  10. The “Unmaking” of a Movement?

    • Larry J. Griffin, Christopher Botsko, Holly J. McCammon
    Pages 169-194

  11. Medicine, the Medical Profession, and the Welfare State

    • Robert Zussman
    Pages 195-210

  12. Mass Media and Public Opinion

    • James R. Beniger, Susan Herbst
    Pages 211-237

  13. Things Fall Apart

    • Ruy A. Teixeira
    Pages 239-255

  14. Institutional Analysis

    • William Form
    Pages 257-271

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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In the second half of the twentieth century, a number of researchers have conceptualized modern society as a social system composed of differenti­ ated yet interrelated institutional spheres. Commonly identified institu­ tional spheres are the family, religion, the economy, the polity or state, medicine or health care, religion, law, and education. The institutional perspective has sometimes been linked to a structural-functional frame­ work; it has often been asserted that institutions must be understood as parts of a larger whole operating at the societal level. Equally important have been recent institutional theory and research focusing on the more microscopic dynamics of intrainstitutional change. The concern here has been processes governing the institutionalization of rules and practices and the formation and decline of particular social structures. Although valid and useful, neither of these perspectives has yielded a systematic comparative assessment of societal institutions. The aim of this edited volume is to meet this critical need. It brings together recent theo­ retical and empirical research on societal institutions in a time of rapid change. The chapters focus on how these institutions adapt to societal change and what the outcomes of these changes are.

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  • University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

    Maureen T. Hallinan, David M. Klein, Jennifer Glass

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