# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-w-meyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:35.285Z

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name: "John W. Meyer"
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description: "John Wilfred Meyer is an American sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas of education, organizations, and global and transnational sociology. He is best known for the development of the neo-institutional perspective on globalization, known as world society or World Polity Theory. In 2015, he became the recipient of American Sociological Association's highest honor - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award."
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birthDate: "1935"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump