John Boli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Boli |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Boli |
| SIGNATURE | BOLI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1631 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Globalization and World Culture
Global Rivalries
Trading Diamonds Responsibly
This article identifies factors that led to a comprehensive regulatory regime for the global diamond trade, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), established through negotiations among NGOs, states, and the industry. The conflict diamonds case provides important insights into the processes by which global norms redefine how corporations are expected to conduct business. First, we show that global corporate social responsibility (CSR)…
Constructing the International Economy
Facade Diversity
Diversity and multiculturalism are widely embraced principles, championed by many social movements and promoted through the programs and policies of states, businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the world. Purportedly celebrating and protecting group differences, these principles translate concretely into differences that operate as facades masking the underlying individualization of world society. Fundamental to this process is …
Religious organizations
National Differences, Global Similarities
World Culture
Contemporary Developments in World Culture
World culture in the post-war era of rapid globalization is increasingly organized, rationalized, and ubiquitous. The core of world culture - rationalized science, technology, organization, professionalization, etc. - has been thoroughly institutionalized. For all kinds of actors, global principles and procedures for the production of identity, action, and progress have expanded. Ontologically, individualism has been rising rapidly while collecti…
Global Complexity
Constructing World Culture
Constructing World Culture
This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875—including international environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others—both reflects and contributes to t…
Ingos and the Organization of World Culture
One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies
In One World Emerging? Alex Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Inkeles assesses the extent to which convergence in institutional patterns is reflected in the emergence of more common attitudes, values, and daily behaviors in different national populations as individuals …
The Modern Condition
Poor Richard's Principle
World Culture in the World Polity
The authors analyze the growth of international non-governmental organizations between 1875 and 1973 using a data set on almost 6,000 organizations. Although these organizations are highly interconnected with the expanding state system and world economy, as reflections of and contributors to world culture they have helped construct a world polity that cannot be reduced to networks of economic and political interaction. Their analysis of the struc…
World Society and the Nation-State
The authors analyze the nation‐state as a worldwide institution constructed by worldwide cultural and associational processes, developing four main topics: (1) properties of nation‐states that result from their exogenously driven construction, including isomorphism, decoupling, and expansive structuration; (2) processes by which rationalistic world culture affects national states; (3) characteristics of world society that enhance the impact of wo…
Cream of the Crop
Reading for Heuristics
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working
Western Conceptions of the Individual
Literacy and Popular Culture
New Citizens for a New Society
New Citizens for a New Society
World Society and the Nation-State
The authors analyze the nation‐state as a worldwide institution constructed by worldwide cultural and associational processes, developing four main topics: (1) properties of nation‐states that result from their exogenously driven construction, including isomorphism, decoupling, and expansive structuration; (2) processes by which rationalistic world culture affects national states; (3) characteristics of world society that enhance the impact of wo…
World Culture in the World Polity
The authors analyze the growth of international non-governmental organizations between 1875 and 1973 using a data set on almost 6,000 organizations. Although these organizations are highly interconnected with the expanding state system and world economy, as reflections of and contributors to world culture they have helped construct a world polity that cannot be reduced to networks of economic and political interaction. Their analysis of the struc…
World Culture
The Political Construction of Mass Schooling
This paper examines the origins of state educational systems in Europe in the nineteenth century and the institutionalization of mass education throughout the world in the twentieth century. We offer a theoretical interpretation of mass state-sponsored schooling that emphasizes the role of education in the nation-building efforts of states competing with one another within the European interstate system. We show that political, economic, and cult…
Contemporary Developments in World Culture
World culture in the post-war era of rapid globalization is increasingly organized, rationalized, and ubiquitous. The core of world culture - rationalized science, technology, organization, professionalization, etc. - has been thoroughly institutionalized. For all kinds of actors, global principles and procedures for the production of identity, action, and progress have expanded. Ontologically, individualism has been rising rapidly while collecti…
Facade Diversity
Diversity and multiculturalism are widely embraced principles, championed by many social movements and promoted through the programs and policies of states, businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the world. Purportedly celebrating and protecting group differences, these principles translate concretely into differences that operate as facades masking the underlying individualization of world society. Fundamental to this process is …
National Differences, Global Similarities
New Citizens for a New Society
Global Rivalries
Trading Diamonds Responsibly
This article identifies factors that led to a comprehensive regulatory regime for the global diamond trade, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), established through negotiations among NGOs, states, and the industry. The conflict diamonds case provides important insights into the processes by which global norms redefine how corporations are expected to conduct business. First, we show that global corporate social responsibility (CSR)…
Institutional structure
High-Ability Women and Men in Undergraduate Mathematics and Chemistry Courses
Using samples of college students of very high ability and strong academic background, sex differences in performance and perceptions of performance in introductory chemistry and mathematics courses were studied. Considerable differences favoring men were found, and these appeared to be due primarily to differences in mathematics background. In addition, female high school role models and general attitudes about women’s mathematical ability were …
Marxism as World Religion
Constructing World Culture
This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875—including international environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others—both reflects and contributes to t…
Analyzing Academic Records for Informed Administration
John Boli, Herant Katchadourian, Sally Mahoney, Analyzing Academic Records for Informed Administration: The Stanford Curriculum Study, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1988), pp. 54-68
Marxism as World Religion
Explaining the Origins and Expansion of Mass Education
High-Ability Women and Men in Undergraduate Mathematics and Chemistry Courses
Using samples of college students of very high ability and strong academic background, sex differences in performance and perceptions of performance in introductory chemistry and mathematics courses were studied. Considerable differences favoring men were found, and these appeared to be due primarily to differences in mathematics background. In addition, female high school role models and general attitudes about women’s mathematical ability were …
Careerism and Intellectualism among College Students
Institutional structure
The Political Construction of Mass Schooling
This paper examines the origins of state educational systems in Europe in the nineteenth century and the institutionalization of mass education throughout the world in the twentieth century. We offer a theoretical interpretation of mass state-sponsored schooling that emphasizes the role of education in the nation-building efforts of states competing with one another within the European interstate system. We show that political, economic, and cult…
The Growth of Minds and Cultures
Analyzing Academic Records for Informed Administration
John Boli, Herant Katchadourian, Sally Mahoney, Analyzing Academic Records for Informed Administration: The Stanford Curriculum Study, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1988), pp. 54-68
Education and Social Change in Egypt and Turkey
New Citizens for a New Society
New Citizens for a New Society
Literacy and Popular Culture
Western Conceptions of the Individual
Social Paralysis and Social Change
Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working
Cream of the Crop
Reading for Heuristics
Poor Richard's Principle
World Culture in the World Polity
The authors analyze the growth of international non-governmental organizations between 1875 and 1973 using a data set on almost 6,000 organizations. Although these organizations are highly interconnected with the expanding state system and world economy, as reflections of and contributors to world culture they have helped construct a world polity that cannot be reduced to networks of economic and political interaction. Their analysis of the struc…
World Society and the Nation-State
The authors analyze the nation‐state as a worldwide institution constructed by worldwide cultural and associational processes, developing four main topics: (1) properties of nation‐states that result from their exogenously driven construction, including isomorphism, decoupling, and expansive structuration; (2) processes by which rationalistic world culture affects national states; (3) characteristics of world society that enhance the impact of wo…
Constructing World Culture
This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875—including international environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others—both reflects and contributes to t…
Ingos and the Organization of World Culture
One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies
In One World Emerging? Alex Inkeles clarifies the meaning of convergence in the social organization of modern societies, shows how it can be measured, and illustrates in detail the manner and degree of convergence across national boundaries. Inkeles assesses the extent to which convergence in institutional patterns is reflected in the emergence of more common attitudes, values, and daily behaviors in different national populations as individuals …
The Modern Condition
Constructing World Culture
Global Complexity
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (5 works)