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Afterword: New Institutional, Inhabited Institutional, and a Cultural-Organizational Approach to Studying Elites and Higher Education

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Universities and the Production of Elites

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The afterword reflects on this volume’s chapters using several approaches attentive to culture and organization. It first sketches the now-classic new institutional approach to studying the origin and diffusion of elite practices and identities in educational settings. It then lays out several of the critiques that sociologists level against new institutionalism – in particular, its emphasis on organizational convergence and its general neglect of power and interests. Binder proposes to use the relatively new “inhabited institutions” mode of organizational analysis for a more sophisticated understanding of the fit between broad-scale logics governing higher education and organizational action at the level of regions, nations, and individual university campuses. Finally, she lays out the elements of a cultural-organizational approach to studying individual universities’ distinctive effects on shaping elites.

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    Amy J. Binder

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  1. Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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  2. Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Alexander Mitterle

  3. Institute for Research and Innovation in Society, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Catherine Paradeise

  4. Institute of Sociology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Tobias Peter

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Binder, A.J. (2018). Afterword: New Institutional, Inhabited Institutional, and a Cultural-Organizational Approach to Studying Elites and Higher Education. In: Bloch, R., Mitterle, A., Paradeise, C., Peter, T. (eds) Universities and the Production of Elites. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53970-6_16

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