Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clegg, Stewart R., 1947-

Contributor:

Grothe-Hammer, Michael.

Serrano-Velarde, Kathia.

Series:

Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.

Summary:

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.

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:

9781835495889

1835495885

OCLC:

1455762138