Sociology, Work and Organization
Sociology, Work and Organisation builds on the five popular and successful editions of Sociology, Work and Industry. The new text is outstanding in how effectively it explains the value of using the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis
2011.
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| Edición: | 6th ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623537306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Sociology, Work and Organisation; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures, tables and snapshots; Introduction; 1. Studying work, society and organisation; Key issues; People, work and society; Social organisation, work organisations and thinking about work sociologically; Choices, constraints and opportunities in work and society; Work and the sociological imagination; Sociology, critique and the democratic debate about work; Sociology and the historical coming to terms with industrialisation; Contemporary sociology and the informing of democratic choices about work
- The continuing challengeSociology and the future of work; Researching and theorising work patterns and experiences; Sociology as science; Theory, work and society; Concepts, definitions and theories; A range of research methods; Methodological assumptions; Summary; 2. Analysing work and organisation: scientific management, human relations and negotiated orders; Key issues; Strands of thought and key theoretical perspectives in the sociology of work and organisation; The managerial-psychologistic strand; Scientific management; Psychological humanism; Discussion
- The Durkheim-human-relations-systems strandEmile Durkheim; Human relations and the Hawthorne studies; Systems thinking in the sociology of work and organisation; Corporate cultures; Discussion; The interactionist-negotiated-order strand; The Chicago school and symbolic interactionism; Organisations as negotiated orders; Ethnomethodology; Discussion; Summary; 3. Analysing work and organisation: institutionalism, labour process and discourse analysis; Key issues; The Weber-social-action-institutional strand; Max Weber; Orientations to work
- Institutional theories of organisation and the social construction of realityDiscussion; The Marxian-labour-process strand; Marx and Engels; Marxian industrial sociology and labour process analysis; Discussion; The post-structuralist strand and postmodernism; Postmodernism; Post-structuralist labour process thinking, Foucault, discourse and human subjectivity; Discussion; Sociology, discourses and working lives; Summary; 4. Work, organisation and globalisation; Key issues; The nature of modern societies; The emergence of industrial capitalism; From feudalism to capitalism
- Protestantism and the spirit of capitalismSocial groups and the rise of industrialism; Industrialisation and the changing division of labour; Technology, science and social change; Industrial capitalist social organisation: change and transition; Post-industrialism and the information society; Post-Fordism; Flexible specialisation; Postmodernity; McDonaldisation and the blurring of the manufacturing-service distinction; Globalisation in perspective; Summary; 5. Work organisations; Key issues; The organisational principle of work structuring; The nature of work organisations
- Official and unofficial aspects of organisations
