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• Grothe-Hammer, Michael [Browse]
• Velarde, Kathia Serrano [Browse]

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series [More in this series]

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Breathing fresh life into a once lively dialogue, this is a valuable resource for navigating of the varied sociological scholarship we witness amongst today's organization scholars.

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Contents

• Intro
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
• Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship
• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is "Organizational Sociology" Today?
• 3. What Does the Community of Organizational Sociologists Look Like Today?
• 4. About the Papers
• Part 1: The Place of Sociology in Organizational Scholarship
• Part 2: Social Stratification in and Through Organizations
• Organizations Within Society: Organizational Perspectives on Status and Distinction
• Society Within Organizations: Organizational Perspectives on Social Integration and Marginalization
• Part 3: Rediscovering Sociological Classics for Organization Studies
• Reflexivity and Control
• Organizing and Organization
• References
• Revitalizing Organizational Theory Through a Problem-oriented Sociology
• Organizational Research in Sociology
• Theoretical Ambiguity and Problem-oriented Sociology
• Engaging with Social Problems and Theoretical Development
• Conclusion
• Organizational Sociology and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future
• Introduction
• Conceptual Considerations
• From "Accidental Outcomes" to "Organizational Sociology in a Narrow Sense"
• From Professionalization to Scientization: A Brief History of the Business School
• OS as a Settlement
• OS as a Network of Expertise
• Crises Revisited
• Facing Up to the Present? Cultivating Political JUDGMENT and a Sense of Reality in Contemporary Organizational Life
• Judgment Undermined Amid Political Risks and Problems
• Facing Political Risks and Problems.
• Undermining Judgment Through "Rigor" and "Science"
• Undermining Judgment Through Metrics
• Re-enter "Political Judgment" and a "Sense of Reality"
• Political Judgment and Sense of Reality in Organizational Sociology and Theory
• Isaiah Berlin: "Sense of Reality" and "Political Judgment"
• Discussion and Concluding Remarks
• Organizations within Society: Organizational Perspectives on Status and Distinction
• Status in Socio-environmental Fields: Relationships, Evaluations, and Otherhood
• 2. Status and Socio-environmental Issues
• 3. The Swiss Food Waste Field
• 4. Methods
• 4.1. Drawing the Field Boundaries
• 4.2. Designing the Survey
• 4.3. Conceptualizing and Measuring Status
• 5. Status Hierarchies in the Food Waste Field
• 5.1. Relational Status
• 5.2. Evaluative Status
• 6. Discussion and Conclusion
• Organizations as Carriers of Status and Class Dynamics: A Historical Ethnography of the Emergence of Bordeaux's Cork Aristocracy
• A Historical Ethnography: Context, Data, and Methods
• Context
• Data Sources
• Coding and Measurement
• Analysis and Interpretation
• Findings: The Formation of a Cork Aristocracy
• A Material Transformation: The Fall of the Old Regime and the Ascendance of the New
• A Symbolic Transformation: The Transposition of Aristocratic Codes into the Wine World
• Discussion
• Society within Organizations: Organizational Perspectives on Social Integration and Marginalization
• Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration: Contradiction and Reconciliation Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring
• Theoretical Framework
• Tensions Between Pursuing Social and Systemic Integration.
• Conflicting Goals and the Production of Inequality Within Organizations
• Methods
• Findings
• Loose Demographic Coupling
• Community Anchoring
• Why Organization Studies Should Care More about Gender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport Organizations
• Doing and Undoing Gender
• Doing and Undoing Gender in Sport Organizations
• Formal Organizational Dimensions and Doing Gender
• Formal Organizational Dimensions and Undoing Gender
• Informal Organizational Dimensions and Doing Gender
• Informal Organizational Dimensions and Undoing Gender
• The Reproduction of Binary Orders in and Through Sport
• Narrating the Disjunctions Produced by the Sociological Concept of Emotional Reflexivity in Organization Studies
• Literature Review
• Problematizing the Emotionalization of Reflexivity in Contemporary Sociology
• Becoming Emotionally Reflexive in Research
• The Impact of the Concept of Emotional Reflexivity
• A Methodological Prolegomenon
• Case and Methodology
• Deafness, Dogs, and Learning
• The Narrative
• Discussion: Toward a Conclusion and a Research Agenda
• The Promise of Total Institutions in the Sociology of Organizations: Implications of Regimental and Monastic Obedience for Underlife
• The Concept of the Total Institution
• The Traditional Focus: Shaping New Selves
• A New Focus: Authority and Obedience in Voluntary Total Institutions
• Comparing Voluntary Total Institutions: Method and Material
• The Meaning of Obedience to Authority
• How Conceptions of Obedience Shape Conditions for Underlife
• Concluding Remark
• Organizing and Organization.
• Why Organization Sociologists Should Refer to Tarde and Simmel More Often
• Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)
• Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
• Prophets of Imperfection
• Because Fashion and Imitation are Key Phenomena in Contemporary Organizations
• Because They Will Help to Counter the "Identity Terror"
• Because Strangers are with Us
• Because Framing Photos is Not the Same as Framing Pictures
• Because Secret Organizations are Many, Though Rarely Studied
• Because They Wrote Well, Achieving Beauty without Perfection …
• Organization Systems and Their Social Environments: The Role of Functionally Differentiated Society And Face-to-Face Interaction Rituals
• 1. Organizations as Social Systems
• 2. How Functionally Differentiated Society Affects Organizations
• 2.1. What Is Functional Differentiation?
• 2.2. How Functional Differentiation Works
• 2.3. How Functional Differentiation Affects Organizations
• 3. Face-to-Face Interactions within Organizations
• 3.1. What Gets Lost in Mediated Interaction
• 3.2. Interaction as Distinct Social Order
• 3.3. Rituals and Emotion
• 3.4. Why Are Rituals and Emotions Important in Organizations?
• 3.5. Power Rituals
• 4. Bringing it All Together: Interaction, Organization, and Society
• References.

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ISBN

1-83549-588-5

OCLC

1455762138

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