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Preface | ix | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Our Approach | 2 | |
Conceptual Focus on Roles | 5 | |
From Industrial to Post-Industrial Work Roles | 9 | |
From Industrial to Post-Industrial Family Roles | 12 | |
Our Challenge | 16 | |
1. | The New Society | 21 |
Signs of Role Change | 22 | |
Institutional Failure | 22 | |
New Institutional Forms | 25 | |
Recognition of Change | 28 | |
The Growth of Knowledge | 29 | |
Reconceptualizing Knowledge | 29 | |
Research and Development as a Domain of Knowledge Growth | 32 | |
Flexible Manufacturing Automation: Implanting Knowledge in Machines | 36 | |
Education: Implanting Knowledge in Minds | 37 | |
Conclusions | 41 | |
2. | From Rational to Complex Work | 43 |
Stages of the Industrial Revolution | 43 | |
The Process of Rationalization and Concomitant "Deskilling" | 47 | |
The Process of Complexification | 50 | |
The Balance Between Complexification and Rationalization | 55 | |
Complexification and Market Change | 57 | |
Conclusions | 60 | |
3. | Creative Minds and Complex Selves | 63 |
Basic Framework | 64 | |
Mead on the Mind | 64 | |
Mead on the Self | 66 | |
Post-Industrial Society and Mead's Problematic | 67 | |
From Industrial (Intelligent) to Post-Industrial (Creative) Minds | 70 | |
The Universality of Creative Thinking | 72 | |
Organizationally Stimulating Creativity | 76 | |
From Industrial (Dominant) Selves to Post-Industrial (Complex) Selves | 78 | |
Recognizing Complex Selves | 83 | |
Extensions to the Established Literature | 85 | |
The Complex Self Versus the Situational Self | 85 | |
The Leisure Self as an Important Addition | 86 | |
Conclusions | 88 | |
4. | Emotion | 91 |
Interaction Demands of the New Society | 92 | |
Emotion: The Nonverbal Channel | 95 | |
Locator Messages | 97 | |
Specific Feelings | 100 | |
Impression Management | 101 | |
Freudian Slips | 103 | |
The Growing Importance of Emotions | 105 | |
Conclusions | 108 | |
5. | Role Redefinition: The Pivotal Micro Process | 111 |
Role Redefinition: The True Locus of Social Creativity | 112 | |
Potential Solutions to Problems in Role Redefinition | 116 | |
Failure to Successfully Redefine Roles | 119 | |
Toward a Theory of Role Redefinition | 121 | |
Interactionist Skills for Successful Role and Self Redefinition | 122 | |
The Interaction Network and Conditions Inhibiting Successful Redefinition of Role or Self | 123 | |
Characteristics of Roles and Prospects for Role Redefinition | 126 | |
Redefinition of Selves | 128 | |
Interplay Between Redefinition of Role and Redefinition of Self | 130 | |
Conclusions | 133 | |
6. | Analytical Tools for Understanding Role Structures | 137 |
Social Interaction From the Bottom Looking Up: Robert King Merton | 138 | |
Basic Concepts: Status-Sets, Role-Sets, and Person-Sets | 139 | |
Basic Concepts: Role Conflict Over Expectations | 141 | |
Criticisms | 144 | |
Social Interaction From the Top Down: Siegfried Frederick Nadel | 146 | |
Basic Concepts: Control Through the Coherence of Roles | 147 | |
Basic Concepts: Complex Matrices | 151 | |
Criticisms | 152 | |
What Is Needed: A Vocabulary for Role Networks | 154 | |
Networks Link Role-Sets | 154 | |
A Typology of Variables for Role Relationships, Role-Sets, and Role Matrices | 155 | |
Implications for Role Matrices | 158 | |
Conclusions | 159 | |
7. | The Metamorphosis of Roles Into Interpersonal Relationships | 161 |
The Rise of Interpersonal Relationships and the Expression of Sentiment | 162 | |
Occupants and Activities | 163 | |
Time and Location | 164 | |
Choice and Fluidity | 167 | |
Evolution in Role-Sets and Role Matrices | 168 | |
Internal Role Matrices in Traditional Craft Organizations | 169 | |
Internal Role Matrices in Mechanical-Bureaucratic Organizations | 172 | |
Role Matrices in Mixed Mechanical-Organic Organizations | 173 | |
Organic Organizations | 174 | |
Post-Industrial Role Matrices | 176 | |
The Determinants of Emotion in Work Organizations | 180 | |
The Reconstruction of Society | 181 | |
Rebuilding Organizational Structures | 185 | |
External Networks as Role Matrices and Governance Mechanisms | 186 | |
Conclusions | 190 | |
Epilogue: Sociology for the Post-Industrial Era | 195 | |
Changes in the Way People Live | 195 | |
Social Roles Transformed | 196 | |
Interaction Transformed | 199 | |
Social Networks Transformed | 203 | |
The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Society | 205 | |
Sociological Theory Transformed | 208 | |
Knowledge Growth: The Engine of Social Change | 208 | |
Agency by Co-Determination | 210 | |
Sociological Theory on the Meso Level | 211 | |
Looking to the Future | 215 | |
References | 219 | |
Name Index | 233 | |
Subject Index | 239 | |
About the Authors | 247 |
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