Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions: An Institutional Perspective

摘要: What are the implications of enormously increased relevance education in modern knowledge societies from an institutionalist theoretical perspective? It is stated classical institutional theory that institutions follow their own logics and externalize negative consequences to other institutions. Education expected fulfil task social integration immigrants compensation inequalities. At same time, educational have deal with externalities caused by Moreover, since universities schools show elements garbage-can organizations, capacities for efficient goal attainment reform limited anyway. In addition, argued isomorphism organizational change does not automatically criteria efficiency, but aims at symbolic accordance institutionalized norms environment. Following this perspective, changing structures do necessarily solve problems. Symbolic action rationality as a myth ceremony can be one way responding inflation functions system has fulfil.