TY  - JOUR
AB  - Rankings have dramatically proliferated over the past several decades. An often-overlooked impact of this proliferation is that it has facilitated the institutionalization of an imaginary of the modern world as a stratified order, whose actors are imagined as continuously striving to perform better than others. To better understand this impact, we need to take a closer look at rankings’ premises and the way these resonate with the broader institutional environment of which rankings are a part.
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.1177/00076503211015638
KW  - impact
KW  - institutionalization
KW  - rankings
LA  - eng
PY  - 2021
SN  - 0007-6503
TI  - Why Rankings Appear Natural (But Aren’t)
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29551917
Y2  - 2025-04-05T13:22:25
ER  -