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By virtually dominating French intellectual life (literature, philosophy, culture) during the early post-World War II period,
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) embodied what Pierre Bourdieu calls a “total intellectual” – one who responds to and helps frame
public debate on all the intellectual and political issues of the day. During his lifetime and even after his death in 1980,
Sartre’s thinking and political engagements provoked sharp reactions, both positive and negative, in France and abroad. Marxism,
decolonization struggles, and violence are three key themes on which Sartre’s public positions continue to generate considerable
debate – a debate that remains relevant today.
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and teaches in the Core Curriculum at Boston University. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004). His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory and he is currently writing a book on the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Swartz is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society. Vera L. Zolberg is Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York City, where she has taught for over 20 years. In addition, she has taught at Purdue University, was visiting lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, held the Chair in Sociology of Art, University of Amsterdam, as Boekmanstichting Professor, and was visiting Research Associate at the CNRS in Paris. Zolberg has served as President of the Research Committee in the Sociology of the Arts of the International Sociological Association, and Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. Among her publications are Outsider Art: Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture, with J.M. Cherbo (Cambridge University Press, 1997); and Constructing a Sociology of the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 1990). She is co-editor, with David Swartz, of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), and author of many articles. Her research interests include: contemporary and historical cultural policy and politics, urbanism and culture, museums, African art, and the sociology of collective memory. Zolberg is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society. 相似文献
David L. Swartz (Corresponding author)Email: |
Vera L. ZolbergEmail: |
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and teaches in the Core Curriculum at Boston University. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press, 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004). His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory and he is currently writing a book on the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Swartz is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society. Vera L. Zolberg is Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research, New York City, where she has taught for over 20 years. In addition, she has taught at Purdue University, was visiting lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, held the Chair in Sociology of Art, University of Amsterdam, as Boekmanstichting Professor, and was visiting Research Associate at the CNRS in Paris. Zolberg has served as President of the Research Committee in the Sociology of the Arts of the International Sociological Association, and Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. Among her publications are Outsider Art: Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture, with J.M. Cherbo (Cambridge University Press, 1997); and Constructing a Sociology of the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 1990). She is co-editor, with David Swartz, of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), and author of many articles. Her research interests include: contemporary and historical cultural policy and politics, urbanism and culture, museums, African art, and the sociology of collective memory. Zolberg is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society. 相似文献
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American organizational theorists have not taken up the call to apply Bourdieu’s approach in all of its richness in part because,
for better or worse, evidentiary traditions render untenable the kind of sweeping analysis that makes Bourdieu’s classics
compelling. Yet many of the insights found in Bourdieu are being pursued piecemeal, in distinct paradigmatic projects that
explore the character of fields, the emergence of organizational habitus, and the changing forms of capital that are key to
the control of modern organizations. A number of these programs build on the same sociological classics that Bourdieu built
his own theory on. These share the same lineage, even if they were not directly influenced by Bourdieu.
Frank Dobbin is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His The New Economic Sociology: A Reader (Princeton University Press 2004) traces modern paradigms in economic sociology to their origins in sociological classics. His Inventing Equal Opportunity, chronicling the construction of corporate anti-discrimination strategies by human resources professionals, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2008. 相似文献
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Frank Dobbin is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His The New Economic Sociology: A Reader (Princeton University Press 2004) traces modern paradigms in economic sociology to their origins in sociological classics. His Inventing Equal Opportunity, chronicling the construction of corporate anti-discrimination strategies by human resources professionals, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2008. 相似文献
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David Gartman 《Theory and Society》2007,36(5):381-413
Jeffrey Alexander’s recent book on cultural sociology argues that sociologists must grant the realm of ideas autonomy to determine
behavior, unencumbered by interference from instrumental or material factors. He criticizes the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
as “weak” for failing to give autonomy to culture by reducing it to self-interested behavior that immediately reflects class
position. However, Alexander’s arguments seriously distort and misstate Bourdieu’s theory, which provides for the relative
autonomy of culture through the concepts of habitus and field. Because habitus is a set of durable dispositions conditioned
by past structures, it may contradict the changed structures of the present. Further, the influence of the habitus is always
mediated by the structure and strategies of the field of contest in which it is deployed, so that the same habitus may motivate
different actions in different circumstances. However, Alexander is correct to argue that in Bourdieu’s theory culture generally
serves to reproduce, not contradict social structures. Yet Bourdieu addresses this and other problems in his later work, in
which he argues for the existence of certain cultural universals transcending particular structures.
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David GartmanEmail: |
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David L. Swartz 《Theory and Society》2008,37(1):45-52
This article argues that while elements of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology are increasingly employed in American sociology, it
is rare to find all three of Bourdieu’s master concepts—habitus, capital, and field—incorporated into a single study. Moreover,
these concepts are seldom deployed within a relational perspective that was fundamental to Bourdieu’s thinking. The article
“Bourdieu and Organizational Analysis” by Mustafa Emirbayer and Victoria Johnson is a welcomed exception, for it draws on
all three of Bourdieu’s pillar concepts to propose a relational approach to the study of organizations. It both reframes existing
thinking about organizations, particularly from the neo-institutional and resource dependence schools, and indicates new directions
for research in organizations to move. This paper evaluates their contribution calling attention to its many strengths and
suggesting a few points that need future clarification and elaboration.
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004). He is a Senior Editor and Book Review Editor for Theory and Society. His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory, and he is currently writing a book on the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. 相似文献
David L. SwartzEmail: |
David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004). He is a Senior Editor and Book Review Editor for Theory and Society. His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory, and he is currently writing a book on the political sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. 相似文献
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Bourdieu and organizational analysis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Despite some promising steps in the right direction, organizational analysis has yet to exploit fully the theoretical and
empirical possibilities inherent in the writings of Pierre Bourdieu. While certain concepts associated with his thought, such
as field and capital, are already widely known in the organizational literature, the specific ways in which these terms are
being used provide ample evidence that the full significance of his relational mode of thought has yet to be sufficiently
apprehended. Moreover, the almost complete inattention to habitus, the third of Bourdieu’s major concepts, without which the
concepts of field and capital (at least as he deployed them) make no sense, further attests to the misappropriation of his
ideas and to the lack of appreciation of their potential usefulness. It is our aim in this paper, by contrast, to set forth
a more informed and comprehensive account of what a relational – and, in particular, a Bourdieu-inspired – agenda for organizational
research might look like. Accordingly, we examine the implications of his theoretical framework for interorganizational relations,
as well as for organizations themselves analyzed as fields. The primary advantage of such an approach, we argue, is the central
place accorded therein to the social conditions under which inter- and intraorganizational power relations are produced, reproduced,
and contested.
Emirbayer and Johnson are equal co-authors of this article
Mustafa Emirbayer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of numerous articles on pragmatist sociological theory, cultural analysis, and Bourdieusian sociology, including “Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and Collective Emotions in Contentious Politics” (with Chad Goldberg, Theory and Society 2005), “Bourdieu and Social Work” (with Eva Williams, Social Service Review 2005), and “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology” (American Journal of Sociology 1997). He is currently at work on two companion volumes on race (both with Matthew Desmond): an undergraduate textbook entitled The Sociology of Racial Domination (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming) and a theoretical study entitled The Theory of Racial Domination. Victoria Johnson is Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime, to be published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. She also lead-edited the interdisciplinary volume Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu (Cambridge University Press 2007). Her current research focuses on mission and identity shifts in U.S. botanical gardens from the nineteenth century to the present. 相似文献
Mustafa Emirbayer (Corresponding author)Email: |
Victoria JohnsonEmail: |
Mustafa Emirbayer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of numerous articles on pragmatist sociological theory, cultural analysis, and Bourdieusian sociology, including “Pragmatism, Bourdieu, and Collective Emotions in Contentious Politics” (with Chad Goldberg, Theory and Society 2005), “Bourdieu and Social Work” (with Eva Williams, Social Service Review 2005), and “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology” (American Journal of Sociology 1997). He is currently at work on two companion volumes on race (both with Matthew Desmond): an undergraduate textbook entitled The Sociology of Racial Domination (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming) and a theoretical study entitled The Theory of Racial Domination. Victoria Johnson is Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime, to be published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. She also lead-edited the interdisciplinary volume Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu (Cambridge University Press 2007). Her current research focuses on mission and identity shifts in U.S. botanical gardens from the nineteenth century to the present. 相似文献
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“Achievement” and “ascription” in admission to an elite college: A political-organizational analysis
David Karen 《Sociological Forum》1991,6(2):349-380
Researchers have typically understood access to elite positions in the social structure either in terms of a structural-functional focus on ability or a class-reproduction focus on inheritance. This paper argues, and empirically demonstrates with a study of access to Harvard College, that a political-organizational perspective incorporates and goes beyond the insights of each of these perspectives. Using concepts such as cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1977a) and organizational field (DiMaggio and Powell, 1983), hypotheses regarding who gets into Harvard College are generated and tested. Political mobilization as well as historic ties among elites are both key factors in determining admissions outcomes. Though academic merit is a prime determinant of admission to Harvard College, there was evidence that affirmative action for legacy applicants, minorities (but not Asians), athletes, and working-class males was also in effect. 相似文献
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Sidney Tarrow 《Theory and Society》2008,37(6):513-536
Not many years ago both anthropology and political science experienced internal disputes—in the first case over the publication
of a book accusing a noted anthropologist of endangering indigenous subjects and in the second over the nature of the field.
While the first led to polarization, the second produced a partial convergence and modest reforms. This article examines the
two processes and seeks the key mechanisms that produced those differences, closing with a call for broadening the study of
contentious politics to cover non-public controversies like the ones examined in this article.
Sidney Tarrow teaches Political Science and Sociology at Cornell University, where he specializes in social movements and contentious politics. Tarrow’s first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). His next project on contentious politics was a reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960s, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989). With Cambridge Press, he published Power in Movement (1998), Dynamics of Contention (2001, along with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly), and The New Transnational Activism (2005). His latest book (with Charles Tilly) is Contentious Politics (Paradigm, 2007). Tarrow is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on a project on “human rights at war.” 相似文献
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Sidney Tarrow teaches Political Science and Sociology at Cornell University, where he specializes in social movements and contentious politics. Tarrow’s first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). His next project on contentious politics was a reconstruction of Italian protest cycle of the late 1960s, Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989). With Cambridge Press, he published Power in Movement (1998), Dynamics of Contention (2001, along with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly), and The New Transnational Activism (2005). His latest book (with Charles Tilly) is Contentious Politics (Paradigm, 2007). Tarrow is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on a project on “human rights at war.” 相似文献
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Christian Joppke 《Theory and Society》2007,36(4):313-342
Neutrality has been the classic answer of the liberal state to religious and cultural difference. A number of multicultural
critics recently debunked it as “myth” and group power in disguise. Comparing Islamic headscarf laws in France and Germany,
I argue that neutrality is more complex and multifaceted than this. The comparison shows that neutrality leaves space for
particularistic and universalistic, unity- and rights-oriented stances, the first located in the sphere of democratic politics, the second in the legal–constitutional sphere.
Recent headscarf laws may then be understood as political backlash against the rights-oriented neutrality that has emerged
in the legal spheres of both countries.
Christian Joppke is Professor of Politics in the Graduate School of Government, American University of Paris. His most recent book is “Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State” (Harvard University Press, 2005). Currently he is writing a book on citizenship and immigration for Polity Press. Together with John Torpey (CUNY, Graduate Center), he is also conducting research on the institutional accommodation of Islam in North America and Western Europe. This research is funded by the Swiss Foundation for Population, Migration and Environment (PME) and the International Metropolis Project. 相似文献
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Christian Joppke is Professor of Politics in the Graduate School of Government, American University of Paris. His most recent book is “Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State” (Harvard University Press, 2005). Currently he is writing a book on citizenship and immigration for Polity Press. Together with John Torpey (CUNY, Graduate Center), he is also conducting research on the institutional accommodation of Islam in North America and Western Europe. This research is funded by the Swiss Foundation for Population, Migration and Environment (PME) and the International Metropolis Project. 相似文献
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How to model an institution 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Institutions are linkage mechanisms that bridge across three kinds of social divides—they link micro systems of social interaction
to meso (and macro) levels of organization, they connect the symbolic with the material, and the agentic with the structural.
Two key analytic principles are identified for empirical research, relationality and duality. These are linked to new research
strategies for the study of institutions that draw on network analytic techniques. Two hypotheses are suggested. (1) Institutional
resilience is directly correlated to the overall degree of structural linkages that bridge across domains of level, meaning,
and agency. (2) Institutional change is related to over-bridging, defined as the sustained juxtaposition of multiple styles
within the same institutional site. Case examples are used to test these contentions. Institutional stability is examined
in the case of Indian caste systems and American academic science. Institutional change is explored in the case of the rise
of the early Christian church and in the origins of rock and roll music.
John Mohr is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale University. He has a longstanding interest in using formal network methods to analyze cultural meaning systems. Along with Roger Friedland he is the organizer of the Cultural Turn Conference series at UCSB and the co-editor of Matters of Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004). He has published a number of articles on the formal analysis of meaning structures. His current research projects include a study of faculty change agents in higher education and the rise of nano-technology as a scientific project. Harrison White is Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and most recently author of Identity and Control: How social formations emerge (2008) and Markets from Networks (2002), both from Princeton University Press. He is currently working on a variety of writings around sociology of meaning, including linguistics, with special focus around uncertainty and switchings. White has published numerous articles, both field studies and mathematical analyses of business firms and market operation. He is a founder of the joint doctoral program between sociology, psychology, and the business school at Harvard University and University of Arizona, and has served on the board of directors of an urban system consulting firm. 相似文献
John W. Mohr (Corresponding author)Email: |
Harrison C. WhiteEmail: |
John Mohr is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale University. He has a longstanding interest in using formal network methods to analyze cultural meaning systems. Along with Roger Friedland he is the organizer of the Cultural Turn Conference series at UCSB and the co-editor of Matters of Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004). He has published a number of articles on the formal analysis of meaning structures. His current research projects include a study of faculty change agents in higher education and the rise of nano-technology as a scientific project. Harrison White is Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and most recently author of Identity and Control: How social formations emerge (2008) and Markets from Networks (2002), both from Princeton University Press. He is currently working on a variety of writings around sociology of meaning, including linguistics, with special focus around uncertainty and switchings. White has published numerous articles, both field studies and mathematical analyses of business firms and market operation. He is a founder of the joint doctoral program between sociology, psychology, and the business school at Harvard University and University of Arizona, and has served on the board of directors of an urban system consulting firm. 相似文献
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Modeling firms in the global economy 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Charles Perrow 《Theory and Society》2009,38(3):217-243
I examine the apparent deverticalization of firms in the world economy and their adoption of relational contracting and modularization,
necessitated by rapid product change, cheap and rapid transport, and new technologies. I argue that relational contracting
is superseded by modularization when possible in the interest of more control over suppliers, and modularization in turn leads
to consolidation, when possible, through buying up suppliers or making them captives. The result is increased concentration
of economic power in the world economy, and examples of this are presented.
Charles Perrow is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University. His most recent book is The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters, Princeton University Press, 2007. In 2001, he published Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, Princeton University Press. His current research concerns internet security and operating systems architecture, the organization of large technical systems, and the organizational aspects of climate change. 相似文献
Charles PerrowEmail: |
Charles Perrow is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University. His most recent book is The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters, Princeton University Press, 2007. In 2001, he published Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, Princeton University Press. His current research concerns internet security and operating systems architecture, the organization of large technical systems, and the organizational aspects of climate change. 相似文献
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University expansion and the knowledge society 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
For centuries, the processes of social differentiation associated with Modernity have often been thought to intensify the
need for site-specific forms of role training and knowledge production, threatening the university’s survival either through
fragmentation or through failure to adapt. Other lines of argument emphasize the extent to which the Modern system creates
and relies on an integrated knowledge system, but most of the literature stresses functional differentiation and putative
threats to the university. And yet over this period the university has flourished. In our view, this seeming paradox is explained
by the fact that modern society rests as much on universalistic cosmological bases as it does on differentiation. The university
expands over recent centuries because – as it has from its religious origins – it casts cultural and human materials in universalistic
terms. Our view helps explain empirical phenomena that confound standard accounts: the university’s extraordinary expansion
and global diffusion, its curricular and structural isomorphism, and its relatively unified structure. All of this holds increasingly
true after World War II, as national state societies made up of citizens are increasingly embedded in a world society constituted
of empowered individuals. The redefinition of society in global and individual terms reduces nationally bounded models of
nature and culture, extends the pool of university beneficiaries and investigators, and empowers the human persons who are
understood to root it all. The changes intensify universalization and the university’s rate of worldwide growth. For the university’s
knowledge and “knowers,” and for the pedagogy that joins them together, the implications are many. The emerging societal context
intensifies longstanding processes of cultural rationalization and ontological elaboration, yielding great expansions in what
can and should be known, and in who can and should know. These changes in turn alter the menu of approved techniques for joining
knowledge and knower as one. The “knowledge society” that results is distinguished by the extraordinary degree to which the
university is linked to society. But it is also distinguished by the degree to which society is organized around the university’s
abstracted and universalized understandings of the world and its degree-certified graduates.
David John Frank is Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Education at the University of California, Irvine. His interests center on world society and global institutions, especially in the realms of environmental protection, higher education, criminalized sex, and expanded personhood. His most recent work includes a 2006 book from Stanford University Press, entitled Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century (with Jay Gabler), and an article on “World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia,” forthcoming in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (with Wesley Longhofer and Evan Schofer). John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Stanford University. He has contributed to organizational theory, comparative education, and the sociology of education, developing lines of thought now called sociological institutional theory. Since the late 1970s, he has done empirical research, and published many papers, on the impact of global society on national states and societies (some papers are collected in Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen, Suhrkamp, 2005). Recently, he completed a collaborative study of worldwide science and its impact on national societies (Drori, et al., Science in the Modern World Polity, Stanford, 2003). Another collaborative project, on the impact of globalization on organizational structures, has just been published (Drori et al., eds., Globalization and Organization, Oxford 2006). He now studies the rise and impact of the world human rights regime, world curricula of mass and higher education, and the global expansion of higher education. 相似文献
David John Frank (Corresponding author)Email: |
John W. MeyerEmail: |
David John Frank is Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Education at the University of California, Irvine. His interests center on world society and global institutions, especially in the realms of environmental protection, higher education, criminalized sex, and expanded personhood. His most recent work includes a 2006 book from Stanford University Press, entitled Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century (with Jay Gabler), and an article on “World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia,” forthcoming in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (with Wesley Longhofer and Evan Schofer). John W. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Stanford University. He has contributed to organizational theory, comparative education, and the sociology of education, developing lines of thought now called sociological institutional theory. Since the late 1970s, he has done empirical research, and published many papers, on the impact of global society on national states and societies (some papers are collected in Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen, Suhrkamp, 2005). Recently, he completed a collaborative study of worldwide science and its impact on national societies (Drori, et al., Science in the Modern World Polity, Stanford, 2003). Another collaborative project, on the impact of globalization on organizational structures, has just been published (Drori et al., eds., Globalization and Organization, Oxford 2006). He now studies the rise and impact of the world human rights regime, world curricula of mass and higher education, and the global expansion of higher education. 相似文献
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In the late twentieth century, many social scientists and other social commentators came to characterize the world as evolving
into an “information society.” Central to these claims was the notion that new social uses of information, and particularly
application of scientific knowledge, are transforming social life in fundamental ways. Among the supposed transformations
are the rise of intellectuals in social importance, growing productivity and prosperity stemming from increasingly knowledge-based
economic activity, and replacement of political conflict by authoritative, knowledge-based decision-making. We trace these
ideas to their origins in the Enlightenment doctrines of Saint Simon and Comte, show that empirical support for them has never
been strong, and consider the durability of their social appeal.
James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He has researched and published widely on matters relating to sociological theory and the role of information in social life. His most recent books are Theory and Progress in Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Computing in Organizations; Myth and Experience (co-authored with Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers, Transaction, 2002) and Privacy in Peril (Oxford University Press, 2007). Yasemin Besen focuses on young people in the United States in her work, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research interests include teenage labor, gender, and inequality. Her work has been published in Contexts, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, NWSAJ, and Equal Opportunities International. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. 相似文献
James B. Rule (Corresponding author)Email: |
Yasemin BesenEmail: |
James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He has researched and published widely on matters relating to sociological theory and the role of information in social life. His most recent books are Theory and Progress in Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Computing in Organizations; Myth and Experience (co-authored with Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers, Transaction, 2002) and Privacy in Peril (Oxford University Press, 2007). Yasemin Besen focuses on young people in the United States in her work, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Her research interests include teenage labor, gender, and inequality. Her work has been published in Contexts, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, NWSAJ, and Equal Opportunities International. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. 相似文献
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Kate Cooney 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(2):137-155
This paper engages the concept of the organizational field to explore the status of a growing set of organizations referred to as social enterprises, nonprofit ventures, and social purpose businesses. The argument is developed through an ethnographic case study of a nonprofit hybrid organization (in the United States) that is training welfare recipients in their own in-house businesses. First, this paper provides an overview of the commercial trends in the nonprofit sector and the rise of social purpose enterprises. Then, employing key concepts from neo-institutional theory, the author proposes framing nonprofit-business hybrids as organizations positioned in two different organizational fields—each necessitating different internal organizational technologies—to elucidate the structural tensions that can emerge inside these new hybrid models. Internal organizational tensions identified in the case study are highlighted. Finally, the proposed use of organizational field theory developed from the case analysis is discussed in terms of social enterprise more generally.
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Larissa Buchholz 《Theory and Society》2006,35(4):481-490
This is a discussion of a book by Kathryn Linn Geurts, Culture and the Senses. Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002; and a book by Judith Farquhar, Appetites. Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002.
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Kelly H. Chong 《Qualitative sociology》2008,31(4):369-390
Methodological difficulties attendant to ethnographic fieldwork—such as gaining access, maintaining fieldwork relations, objectivity,
and fieldwork stresses—are intensified for researchers working with “absolutist” religious group, groups that hold an exclusivist
or totalistic definition of truth. Based on my fieldwork in a conservative South Korean evangelical community, I explore in
this article two central and related methodological dilemmas pertaining to studying absolutist religious groups: identity
negotiation and emotional management during fieldwork. Writing from my complex location as a feminist and a cultural/religious
insider/outsider in relation to the South Korean evangelical community, I explore in particular the challenges posed by identity/role
management in the field and its emotional dimensions, including the issue of the researcher’s power and vulnerability, the
quandary of “conformity,” and the emotional costs of self-repression arising from the researcher’s fundamental value conflicts
with the group. I conclude with a reflection on the implications of these experiences for ethnographic methodology, most centrally,
how we manage our emotional responses in the field, including “inappropriate” ones, and how we can relate them to the research
process.
Kelly H. Chong is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the topic of religion, gender, and social change in East Asia; she is the author of Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea (Harvard University Press, 2008). Her current research interests include the analysis of the production, meaning, and negotiation of gender and ethnic culture/identity among second generation Asian–Americans, particularly within the context of global/local racial, cultural, gender, and religious politics. 相似文献
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Kelly H. Chong is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the topic of religion, gender, and social change in East Asia; she is the author of Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea (Harvard University Press, 2008). Her current research interests include the analysis of the production, meaning, and negotiation of gender and ethnic culture/identity among second generation Asian–Americans, particularly within the context of global/local racial, cultural, gender, and religious politics. 相似文献
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Ion Bogdan Vasi 《Sociological Forum》2006,21(3):439-466
Few researchers have examined how organizational environments and framing processes simultaneously influence the diffusion of organizational practices. This article combines insight from major perspectives on the diffusion of organizational innovations and from social movement studies, and shows that the adoption of a program to address global climate change by U.S. municipalities is shaped by social contagion and organizational linkages, as well as by the actions of change-promoting agents. The findings emphasize the potential as well as the limitation of the strategic efforts on the part of innovation promoters to frame adoption in a way that will appeal to potential adopters.
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Lucia Trimbur 《Qualitative sociology》2009,32(3):259-277
This article examines how former prisoners of color conceptualize their political, social, and economic futures and how these
conceptualizations relate to the racialized social structural obstacles encountered upon reentry and decisions to re-engage
criminal labor. I find that, presented with similar post-prison challenges, excarcerated men take several approaches when
reentering society. I argue that the differences among their approaches lie in their varying interpretations of how they can
act as individuals against and within their social structural limitations. Their decisions to rejoin or forfeit participation
in criminal economies are thus shaped by experiences confronting the limitations of material conditions but also emerge from
their critiques of racialized structures.
Lucia Trimbur is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College/ CUNY. Her research and teaching interests include race and racisms, ethnographic field methods, sociology of crime and punishment, urban inequality, and gender. 相似文献
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Lucia Trimbur is Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College/ CUNY. Her research and teaching interests include race and racisms, ethnographic field methods, sociology of crime and punishment, urban inequality, and gender. 相似文献
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This paper analyzes gendered social identity in Japan and the United States, countries with comparable postindustrial economic systems but distinct cultural traditions. Using national surveys (1995), we find gender differences in value orientations to be neither systematic nor consistent. They often disappeared after controlling for demographic and human-capital variables, though not so often for Japan. Other variables proved more important predictors of values than gender, although in different ways in Japan and the United States. We conclude by reassessing the use of the term gender in social research and the cultural meaning of gender relations by addressing the feminist concerns with issues of gender location.
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