Bio

Jared Furuta is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, where his research focuses on how educational institutions are culturally constructed in response to changing social norms, conceptions, and taken-for-granted assumptions about education. His past research has examined global changes in national high stakes exams, school tracking, national assessments, and U.S. college admissions policies, and his work has appeared in Sociology of Education, Social Forces, and Comparative Education Review. His current work focuses on long-term changes in systemic educational reform, as well as the effects of educational institutions on economic, political, and social outcomes at the national level.

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Sociology

Professional Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Philosophy (2010)
  • Master of Arts, Stanford University, SOCIO-MA (2020)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, SOCIO-PHD (2020)
  • BA, Brown University, Philosophy (2010)
  • MA, Stanford University, Sociology (2017)
  • PhD, Stanford University, Sociology (2020)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    jkfuruta@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
    University - Other Teaching/Research Department: Sociology Position: Lecturer

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2047

Links

2024-25 Courses

All Publications

  • Globalizing opposition to pro-environmental institutions: The growth of counter climate change organizations around the world, 1990 to 2018. PloS one Furuta, J., Bromley, P. 2025; 20 (1): e0315012

    Abstract

    More than two decades of social scientific research has identified the growing network of corporations, think tanks, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations that aim to obstruct climate change action within the United States. Conventional arguments emphasize the role of economic self-interest (e.g., wealthy and powerful corporations) in shaping the rise of an organized "counter climate change movement" that seeks to discredit evidence about anthropogenic climate change and derail solutions to address the problem. In this paper, we track the growth of counter climate change organizations around the world and emphasize the role of reactionary cultural dynamics in driving their emergence. As climate change discourse is infused in more areas throughout society, climate change issues become more salient in the public sphere, generating adversarial grievances, identities, and mobilization among oppositional groups. Drawing on panel logistic regression models for 162-164 countries from 1990 to 2018, we find that counter climate change organizations are most likely to develop in countries with more extensive state policies and structures oriented toward protecting the natural environment, net of a variety of factors that account for a country's economic interests or its overall capacity to produce domestic associations.

    View details for DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0315012

    View details for PubMedID 39841633

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC11753699

  • Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Bromley, P., Furuta, J., Kijima, R., Overbey, L., Choi, M., Santos, H. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1177/00380407221146773

    View details for Web of Science ID 000908071900001

  • The Rationalization of "Education for All": The Worldwide Rise of National Assessments, 1960-2011 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW Furuta, J. 2022; 66 (2): 228-252

    View details for DOI 10.1086/718829

    View details for Web of Science ID 000787205000001

  • The Effects of High Stakes Educational Testing on Enrollments in an Era of Hyper-Expansion: Cross-National Evidence, 1960-2010 SOCIAL FORCES Furuta, J., Schofer, E., Wick, S. 2021; 99 (4): 1631-1657

    View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/soaa071

    View details for Web of Science ID 000642332400035

  • Western Colonialism and World Society in National Education Systems: Global Trends in the Use of High-Stakes Exams at Early Ages, 1960 to 2010 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Furuta, J. 2020

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0038040720957368

    View details for Web of Science ID 000570908800001

  • Education reform in the twenty-first century: declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998-2018 GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION Bromley, P., Overbey, L., Furuta, J., Kijima, R. 2020

    View details for DOI 10.1080/14767724.2020.1816159

    View details for Web of Science ID 000567585500001

  • Liberal Individualism and the Globalization of Education as a Human Right: The Worldwide Decline of Early Tracking, 1960-2010 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Furuta, J. 2019

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0038040719873848

    View details for Web of Science ID 000491131900001

  • Rationalization and Student/School Personhood in US College Admissions: The Rise of Test-optional Policies, 1987 to 2015 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Furuta, J. 2017; 90 (3): 236–54

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0038040717713583

    View details for Web of Science ID 000405597300003