Part I: Overview
1. World Society: A Theory and a Research Program in Context, Gili S. Drori and Georg Krucken
2. Reflections: Institutional Theory and World Society, John W. Meyer
Part II: Concepts and Processes
3. Rationalization: Ontology and Rationalization in the Western Cultural Account, John W. Meyer, John Boli, and George M. Thomas
4. Myth and Ritual: Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth, John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan
5. Actorhood: The "Actors" of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency, John W. Meyer and Ronald L. Jepperson
6. Diffusion: Institutional Conditions for Diffusion, David Strang and John W. Meyer
7. Globalization: Sources and Effects on National States and Societies, John W. Meyer
Part III: Applications
8. The Nation-State: World Society and the Nation-State, John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez
9. Education: The World Institutionalization of Education, John W. Meyer and Francisco O. Ramirez
10. Environment: the Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990, John W. Meyer, David J. Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Tuma
11. Management: Globalization and the Expansion and Standardization of Management, John W. Meyer
12. Science: World Society and the Authority and Empowerment of Science, Gili S. Drori, John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer
13. Human Rights: World Society, the Welfare State, and the Life Course: An Institutionalist Perspective, John W. Meyer
14. The Individual: The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Postwar Period, David J. Frank and John W. Meyer
15. Law: Modern Law as a Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law, Elizabeth Heger Boyle and John W. Meyer
16. The European Union: The European Union and the Globalization of Culture, John W. Meyer
17. Universities: the University in Europe and the World: Twentieth Century Expansion, John W. Meyer
Part IV: Bibliography of Meyer's Writings