Heinz‐dieter Meyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heinz‐dieter Meyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heinz‐dieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyer |
| SIGNATURE | MEYER H D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The limits of measurement: Misplaced precision, phronesis, and other Aristotelian cautions for the makers of Pisa, APPR, etc
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like league tables or employment-relevant effectiveness scores for teachers. In this paper I direct attention t…
Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice
The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The bookâ s chapters consider how different natio…
Institutional Design for Collective Action: Tweaking the Rules of the Game for the Common Good
At present, institutional design is an under-theorized and underdeveloped part of the social sciences. In this paper I focus on designs for situations of collective action where the outcome is controlled by the choices of several self-interested actors. In those situations the goal of institutional design is to alter the rules of the game so that self-interested actors find it rational to cooperate . I explore the viability of that definition by …
Accommodation and Adjudication in Student–Administration Conflicts: The Difficult Legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
In this article, we consider a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that place public school students under an expansive shield of constitutional rights while often hampering the ability of administrators to engage in flexible and creative conflict resolution in the context of the school's mission. The court's readiness to adjudicate a large range of student–administration conflicts has weakened schools’ ability to pragmatically accommodate confl…
Framing Disability: Comparing Individualist and Collectivist Societies
In this paper I use international differences in disability rates as a window to address the question how national culture influences a nation’s understanding and practice of disability. I apply the well-established distinction between individualistic and collectivistic cultures to explore the relationship between culture and disability rates. I argue and find support for the hypothesis that individualistic cultures exhibit higher rates of disabi…
Introduction Culture and Disability: Advancing Comparative Research
Brill profit levels and organic growth in line with expectations, integration V&R according to plan and continuation of eBusiness growth Update on year-to-date performance During the third quarter Brill's eBusiness continued its strong growth, driven by eBooks and digital primary sources.This growth compensated for the ongoing decline in print books.YTD Journal sales declined mainly due to delayed invoicing, which is expected to be recovered in Q…
Culture, Institutions, and Disability Policy in Japan: The Translation of Culture into Policy
Why is the Japanese rate of students with disability a fraction of that of the United States? Barring genetic differences between Americans and Japanese, the difference in disability rates must be what Durkheim called a “social fact,” a phenomenon explained by social differences between the two countries. In this paper we focus on the institutional and cultural factors that enter into the Japanese construction of disability of school-aged student…
Framing Disability: Comparing Individualist and Collectivist Societies
Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years
Culture and Disability: Advancing Comparative Research
Cultures differ greatly as to which specific conditions they recognize as a disability, how they interpret matters of causation and consequence, and which kinds of remedy they believe adequate. The papers in this special issue of Comparative Sociology explore the institutional and cultural variation of disability as well as the underlying causes, including a culture’s degree of individualism / collectivism
Culture, Institutions, and Disability Policy in Japan: The Translation of Culture into Policy
Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years
Saying What We Mean, and Meaning What We Say—Unpacking the Contingencies of Decentralization
During the 1980s and 1990s, administrative decentralization was a prominent reform theme in public education. Revisiting those efforts today reveals a conceptual landscape often governed by ad hoc theorizing, untested assumptions, and an overall lack of consistency and coherence. It provides an example of how terminological ambiguity on the part of researchers and policy makers can stifle a policy’s impact and obstruct attempts to learn from fail…
Local Control as a Mechanism of Colonization of Public Education in the United States
Colonization of public education—the process by which schools are overwhelmed and penetrated by non‐educational imperatives—is usually believed to be caused by capitalism and the hegemonic ideological structures it produces. In this paper I argue that in the case of the United States an additional mechanism produces strong colonizing effects: the institution of local control. In the context of contemporary institutional conditions, local control …
Tocqueville's Cultural Institutionalism: Reconciling Collective Culture and Methodological Individualism
With a few notable exceptions, Alexis de Tocqueville's contributions to the formation of the sociological canon have been ignored. Most sociologists are likely to recognize him as a key source for current work on social capital and the civil society. But, in this paper I argue that Tocqueville's importance for sociology extends far beyond those uses. Tocqueville is the author of a sophisticated and powerful theory of culture that solves the key p…
Taste Formation in Pluralistic Societies: The Role of Rhetorics and Institutions
Standard sociological theories of 'taste-as-refinement', which view taste as a means to maintain social distance among different social classes, conflict with tastemaking practice in pluralistic societies where taste standards are no longer exclusively defined by a society's elite strata. To better account for the heterogeneity of tastemaking in modern societies, this article suggests a framework for analysis in which taste is considered as a col…
Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany.Mary Nolan
Norms and self-interest in ultimatum bargaining: The prince's prudence
Taste Formation in Pluralistic Societies: The Role of Rhetorics and Institutions
Standard sociological theories of 'taste-as-refinement', which view taste as a means to maintain social distance among different social classes, conflict with tastemaking practice in pluralistic societies where taste standards are no longer exclusively defined by a society's elite strata. To better account for the heterogeneity of tastemaking in modern societies, this article suggests a framework for analysis in which taste is considered as a col…
The limits of measurement: Misplaced precision, phronesis, and other Aristotelian cautions for the makers of Pisa, APPR, etc
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like league tables or employment-relevant effectiveness scores for teachers. In this paper I direct attention t…
Saying What We Mean, and Meaning What We Say—Unpacking the Contingencies of Decentralization
During the 1980s and 1990s, administrative decentralization was a prominent reform theme in public education. Revisiting those efforts today reveals a conceptual landscape often governed by ad hoc theorizing, untested assumptions, and an overall lack of consistency and coherence. It provides an example of how terminological ambiguity on the part of researchers and policy makers can stifle a policy’s impact and obstruct attempts to learn from fail…
Tocqueville's Cultural Institutionalism: Reconciling Collective Culture and Methodological Individualism
With a few notable exceptions, Alexis de Tocqueville's contributions to the formation of the sociological canon have been ignored. Most sociologists are likely to recognize him as a key source for current work on social capital and the civil society. But, in this paper I argue that Tocqueville's importance for sociology extends far beyond those uses. Tocqueville is the author of a sophisticated and powerful theory of culture that solves the key p…
Norms and self-interest in ultimatum bargaining: The prince's prudence
Accommodation and Adjudication in Student–Administration Conflicts: The Difficult Legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
In this article, we consider a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that place public school students under an expansive shield of constitutional rights while often hampering the ability of administrators to engage in flexible and creative conflict resolution in the context of the school's mission. The court's readiness to adjudicate a large range of student–administration conflicts has weakened schools’ ability to pragmatically accommodate confl…
Norms and self-interest in ultimatum bargaining: The prince's prudence
Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany.Mary Nolan
Taste Formation in Pluralistic Societies: The Role of Rhetorics and Institutions
Standard sociological theories of 'taste-as-refinement', which view taste as a means to maintain social distance among different social classes, conflict with tastemaking practice in pluralistic societies where taste standards are no longer exclusively defined by a society's elite strata. To better account for the heterogeneity of tastemaking in modern societies, this article suggests a framework for analysis in which taste is considered as a col…
Tocqueville's Cultural Institutionalism: Reconciling Collective Culture and Methodological Individualism
With a few notable exceptions, Alexis de Tocqueville's contributions to the formation of the sociological canon have been ignored. Most sociologists are likely to recognize him as a key source for current work on social capital and the civil society. But, in this paper I argue that Tocqueville's importance for sociology extends far beyond those uses. Tocqueville is the author of a sophisticated and powerful theory of culture that solves the key p…
Local Control as a Mechanism of Colonization of Public Education in the United States
Colonization of public education—the process by which schools are overwhelmed and penetrated by non‐educational imperatives—is usually believed to be caused by capitalism and the hegemonic ideological structures it produces. In this paper I argue that in the case of the United States an additional mechanism produces strong colonizing effects: the institution of local control. In the context of contemporary institutional conditions, local control …
Saying What We Mean, and Meaning What We Say—Unpacking the Contingencies of Decentralization
During the 1980s and 1990s, administrative decentralization was a prominent reform theme in public education. Revisiting those efforts today reveals a conceptual landscape often governed by ad hoc theorizing, untested assumptions, and an overall lack of consistency and coherence. It provides an example of how terminological ambiguity on the part of researchers and policy makers can stifle a policy’s impact and obstruct attempts to learn from fail…
Framing Disability: Comparing Individualist and Collectivist Societies
In this paper I use international differences in disability rates as a window to address the question how national culture influences a nation’s understanding and practice of disability. I apply the well-established distinction between individualistic and collectivistic cultures to explore the relationship between culture and disability rates. I argue and find support for the hypothesis that individualistic cultures exhibit higher rates of disabi…
Introduction Culture and Disability: Advancing Comparative Research
Brill profit levels and organic growth in line with expectations, integration V&R according to plan and continuation of eBusiness growth Update on year-to-date performance During the third quarter Brill's eBusiness continued its strong growth, driven by eBooks and digital primary sources.This growth compensated for the ongoing decline in print books.YTD Journal sales declined mainly due to delayed invoicing, which is expected to be recovered in Q…
Culture, Institutions, and Disability Policy in Japan: The Translation of Culture into Policy
Why is the Japanese rate of students with disability a fraction of that of the United States? Barring genetic differences between Americans and Japanese, the difference in disability rates must be what Durkheim called a “social fact,” a phenomenon explained by social differences between the two countries. In this paper we focus on the institutional and cultural factors that enter into the Japanese construction of disability of school-aged student…
Framing Disability: Comparing Individualist and Collectivist Societies
Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years
Culture and Disability: Advancing Comparative Research
Cultures differ greatly as to which specific conditions they recognize as a disability, how they interpret matters of causation and consequence, and which kinds of remedy they believe adequate. The papers in this special issue of Comparative Sociology explore the institutional and cultural variation of disability as well as the underlying causes, including a culture’s degree of individualism / collectivism
Culture, Institutions, and Disability Policy in Japan: The Translation of Culture into Policy
Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years
Accommodation and Adjudication in Student–Administration Conflicts: The Difficult Legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court
In this article, we consider a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that place public school students under an expansive shield of constitutional rights while often hampering the ability of administrators to engage in flexible and creative conflict resolution in the context of the school's mission. The court's readiness to adjudicate a large range of student–administration conflicts has weakened schools’ ability to pragmatically accommodate confl…
Institutional Design for Collective Action: Tweaking the Rules of the Game for the Common Good
At present, institutional design is an under-theorized and underdeveloped part of the social sciences. In this paper I focus on designs for situations of collective action where the outcome is controlled by the choices of several self-interested actors. In those situations the goal of institutional design is to alter the rules of the game so that self-interested actors find it rational to cooperate . I explore the viability of that definition by …
Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice
The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing mainstream developments that engender increasing inequality and market-dependency in higher education. The bookâ s chapters consider how different natio…
The limits of measurement: Misplaced precision, phronesis, and other Aristotelian cautions for the makers of Pisa, APPR, etc
Quantitative measures of student performance are increasingly used as proxies of educational quality and teacher ability. Such assessments assume that the quality of educational practices can be unambiguously quantitatively measured and that such measures are sufficiently precise and robust to be aggregated into policy-relevant rankings like league tables or employment-relevant effectiveness scores for teachers. In this paper I direct attention t…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Individualism (5 works)