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Part I: Understanding Organizations
A. Foundations of Contemporary Organizational Sociology
Chapter 1: Reflections on a Half-Century of Organizational Sociology, W. Richard Scott
Chapter 2: Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans, William G. Ouchi
Chapter 3: Why Bureaucracy?, Charles Perrow
Chapter 4: The Social Structure of Managerial Work, Robert Jackall
Chapter 5: Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony, John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan
B. Varieties of Organizations
Chapter 6: Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, Charles Perrow
Chapter 7: Bureaucracy and Democracy in Organizations: Revisiting Feminist Organizations, Catherine Alter
Chapter 8: Nonprofit Organizations in International Development: Agents of Empowerment or Preservers of Stability?, Brian H. Smith
Chapter 9: Homophily in Voluntary Organizations: Status Distance and the Composition of Face-to-Face Groups, J. Miller McPherson and Lynn Smith-Lovin
Chapter 10: Democratizing Rural Economy: Institutional Friction, Sustainable Struggle and the Cooperative Movement, Patrick H. Mooney
Part II: Inside Organizations
A. Culture and Control
Chapter 11: Boundary Control: The Social Ordering of Work and Family Time in a High-tech Corporation, Leslie A. Perlow
Chapter 12: An Alternative to Bureaucratic Impersonality and Emotional Labor: Bounded Emotionality at The Body Shop, Joanne Martin, Kathleen Knopoff, and Christine Beckman
Chapter 13: Maintaining NormsAbout Expressed Emotions: The Case of Bill Collectors, Robert I. Sutton
Chapter 14: Metaphors and Meaning: An Intercultural Analysis of the Concept of Teamwork, Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn
Chapter 15: Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting, James A. Evans, Gideon Kunda, and Stephen R. Barley
B. Power and Conflict
Chapter 16: Covert Political Conflict in Organizations: Challenges from Below, Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald, and Hayagreeva Rao
Chapter 17: A Social Movement Perspective on Corporate Control, Gerald F. Davis and Tracy A. Thompson
Chapter 18: Two Faces of the Powerless: Coping With Tyranny in Organizations, Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp
Chapter 19: When Cymbals Become Symbols: Conflict Over Organizational Identity within a Symphony Orchestra, Mary Ann Glynn
C. Demography, Inequality, and Social Networks
Chapter 20: Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes, Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas
Chapter 21: Race, Opportunity, and Diversity of Social Circles in Managerial Networks, Herminia Ibarra
Chapter 22: The Effects of Organizational Demographics and Social Identity on Relationships Among Professional Women, Robin J. Ely
Chapter 23: (In)Voluntary Association: A Multilevel Analysis of Gender Segregation in Voluntary Organizations, Pamela A. Popielarz
Part III: Organizations and Environments
A. The Creation of Organizational Forms
Chapter 24: The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields, Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell
Chapter 25: The Demographic Perspective, Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan
Chapter 26: Caveat Emptor: The Construction of Nonprofit Consumer Watchdog Organizations, Hayagreeva Rao
B. Studies of Organizational Adaptation and Change
Chapter 27: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Social Control: NASA and the Space Shuttle Challenger, Diane Vaughan
Chapter 28: Institutional Pressures and Strategic Responsiveness: Employer Involvement in Work-Family Issues, Jerry D. Goodstein
Chapter 29: Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement, Kim Voss and Rachel Sherman
Chapter 30: Institutional Sources of Practice Variation: Staffing College and University Recycling Programs, Michael Lounsbury
C. The Twenty-First Century Organization
Chapter 31: The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise, Walter W. Powell
Chapter 32: Corporations, Classes, and Social Movements After Managerialism, Gerald F. Davis and Doug McAdam
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Job A Favela
reviewed Sociology of Organizations An Anthology of Contemporary Theory And Research on January 19, 2018
Sociology of Organizations An Anthology of Contemporary Theory And Research
I’ve read 'politics as a vocation' and 'science as a vocation' so far. I picked this up on a recommendation as a philosopher who does it better than RW Emerson. (Read this and you can’t help but acknowledge that German Idealism is vastly superior to American transcendalism was the recommendation). The similarities and differences with Emerson are mildly striking. First, they are both lectures, most of emerson's writing evolved as speeches, and while I don't know if that’s true for Weber, these two essays make it seem plausible. While the tone is very different, the emphasis on positive action and personal responsibility seems to be at the forefront for both philosophers.
I found both of the essays to be very good, though I did breeze over the middle section of both of them where he compares differing aspects of politics and science in different countries. Someone studying the rise of nazism or the failure of america intellectualism might be very interested in it, but I'm not really.
However there are some truly astounding sections, and his early dissection of political motivation seems very astute. The 2nd and 3rd pages of Politics are full of great lines, Like “the mores sanctified through the unimaginable ancient recognition and habitual orientation to conform†and “obedience is determined by highly robust motives of fear and hopeâ€. 79
In general I found his asides to be highlights. I like that his life philosophy (for lack of a better term) is only viewable in their tangential relationship to the points in the essay; he never engages with them directly. For instance on page 117, he is talking about vain power politicians and says of them, “[they] are a product of shoddy and superficially blasé attitude towards the meaning of human conduct; and it has no relation whatsoever to the knowledge of tragedy with which all action, but especially political action, is truly interwoven.†This line is buried in the excellent concluding 15 pages of Politics, which stretches back to the discussion of “sterile excitation… . “ is a ‘romanticism of the intellectually interesting’ running into emptiness devoid of all feeling of objective responsibility.†on page 115, which is a pithy summary of some of problems with academic thought .
That’s amazing, as his discussion of Tolstoy and the meaning of death on page 140. With regards to contrasts with Emerson, this passage is the most interesting. What I have found so compelling about Emerson is his exploration of our ties to the natural world, our fundamental alienation forcing us to seek redemption within ourselves. Almost a Buddhist philosophy. Weber gets into something similar here, and I haven’t had the time to parse this section (138-44) adequately.
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