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Though organizational scholarship traces its intellectual lineage from a diversity of sources, there is little doubt that in recent years a key divide has emerged amongst organization scholars and sociologists. For many, if not most, it has become unclear what role sociology is supposed to play in organization studies. Against this backdrop, the editors of Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship ask: what is "organizational sociology" today?
This pathbreaking volume explores the new boundaries of organizational sociology to identify, discuss and challenge sociology's genuine contribution to organization studies. Mapping a community of scholars that transcends disciplinary limitations, chapters follow one simple epistemic logic: society happens in, between, across and around organizations.
Breathing fresh life into a once lively dialogue on the social nature, characteristics and consequences of the field, this is a valuable resource for navigating of the varied sociological scholarship we witness amongst today's organization scholars.
Contents
Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship; Stewart Clegg, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Kathia Serrano Velarde
Part 1. The Place of Sociology in Organizational Scholarship
Chapter 1. Revitalizing Organizational Theory Through a Problem-Oriented Sociology; Brayden G King
Chapter 2. Organizational Sociology and Organization Studies: Past, Present, and Future; Leopold Ringel
Chapter 3. Facing Up to the Present? Cultivating Political Judgement and a Sense of Reality in Contemporary Organizational Life; Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth and Paul du Gay
Part 2. Social Stratification In and Through Organizations
Organizations Within Society: Organizational Perspectives on Status and Distinction
Chapter 4. Status in Socio-Environmental Fields: Relationships, Evaluations, and Otherhood; Nadine Arnold and Fabien Foureault
Chapter 5. Organizations as Carriers of Status and Class Dynamics: A Historical Ethnography of the Emergence of Bordeaux's Cork Aristocracy; Grégoire Croidieu and Walter W. Powell
Society Within Organizations: Organizational Perspectives on Social Integration and Marginalization
Chapter 6. Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration: Contradiction and Reconciliation Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring; Krystal Laryea and Christof Brandtner
Chapter 7. Why Organization Studies Should Care More About Gender Exclusion and Inclusion in Sport Organizations; Lucy V. Piggott, Jorid Hovden, and Annelies Knoppers
Part 3. Rediscovering Sociological Classics for Organization Studies
Reflexivity and Control
Chapter 8. Narrating the Disjunctions Produced by the Sociological Concept of Emotional Reflexivity in Organization Studies; Bruno Luiz Americo, Stewart Clegg, and Fagner Carniel
Chapter 9. The Promise of Total Institutions in the Sociology of Organizations: Implications of Regimental and Monastic Obedience for Underlife; Mikaela Sundberg
Organizing and Organization
Chapter 10. Why Organization Sociologists Should Refer to Tarde and Simmel More Often; Barbara Czarniawska
Chapter 11. Organization Systems and Their Social Environments: The Role of Functionally Differentiated Society and Face-to-Face Interaction Rituals; Werner Schirmer
