Research Catalog

Title

The sociology of organizations : basic studies / edited by Oscar Grusky and George A. Miller.

Author

Grusky, Oscar, 1930-

Publication

New York : Free Press, [1970]

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Details

Additional Authors

Miller, George A., 1939-

Description

x, 592 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"In 1952 the Free Press published the Reader in Bureaucracy ... This important book directed interest to the problems of organizations for over two decades and remains a major contribution to this day. Since the present volume is by the same publisher some comparisons of the non-invidious kind are in order. First, unlike its predecessor, we sought deliberately to present a uniquely sociological orientation. ... Second, we decided against dividing up the work of major theorists by selected substantive areas in favor of reprinting large, unified sections of their work in one place. ... Third, a broadly-based selection of research techniques is provided in the early part of the book so as to emphasize the obviously close relationship between methods and theory."--The preface.

Subject

• Organizational sociology
• Organization
• Organization and Administration
• Organization
• Organizational sociology
• Organisationssoziologie
• Organisatiesociologie
• Organisation de l'entreprise

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• pt. 1. Classical problems and perspectives -- Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- Oligarchy / Robert Michels -- Scientific management / Frederick W. Taylor -- Human relations / Fritz J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson -- Cooperation / Chester I. Barnard -- Social systems / Talcott Parsons.
• pt. 2. Current theoretical perspectives -- Functional theory / Peter M. Blau -- Decision-making theory / James G. March and Herbert A. Simon -- Compliance theory / Amitai Etzioni -- Exchange theory / Peter M. Blau -- Open-systems theory / Daniel Katz and Robert L. Hahn.
• pt. 3. Methods of study -- Participant observation / Melville Dalton -- Generalizing from a case study : problems of analysis / Seymour M. Lipset, Martin A. Trow, James S. Coleman -- The comparative study of organizations / Peter M. Blau -- The experimental study of organizational variables / Oscar Grusky and Lindsey Churchill -- Cross-cultural analysis : a case study / Stanley H. Udy, Jr.
• pt. 4. Selected substantive problems -- Organizational goals -- Two approaches to organizational analysis : a critique and a suggestion / Amitai Etzioni -- Preserving organizational goals / David L. Sills -- On spitting against the wind : organizational precariousness and American irreligion / N.J. Demerath III and Victor Thiessen -- Bureaucracy and social change / Peter M. Blau -- Formal structure -- Bureaucratic and craft administration of production / Arthur L. Sinchcombe -- Technology and organization / Joan Woodward -- Why democracy in the I.T.U.? / Seymour M. Lipset, Martin A. Trow, James S. Coleman -- The interlocking of official and unofficial reward / Melville Dalton -- Organizational control -- Perceptions of organizational authority / Robert L. Peabody -- Control over policy by attendants in a mental hospital / Thomas J. Scheff -- Organizational patterns of supervision : a study of debureaucratization of authority relations in two business organizations / John Brewer -- Some effects of close and punitive styles of supervision / Robert C. Day and Robert L. Hamblin -- Informal adaptations -- Buddy relations and combat performance / Roger W. Little -- The inmate group in custodial and treatment settings / David Street -- Social roles in a prison for women / Rose Giallombardo -- The underlife of a public institution : a study of ways of making out in a mental hospital / Erving Goffman -- Succession and mobility -- Succession and the problem of bureaucracy / Alvin W. Gouldner -- The effects of succession : a comparative study of military and business organization / Oscar Grusky -- The "cooling-out" function in higher education -- Burton R. Clark -- Professionalization as career immobility / Fred H. Goldner and R.R. Ritte -- Professionalization and commitment -- Cosmopolitans and locals : toward an analysis of latent social roles / Alvin W. Gouldner -- The professionalization of everyone? / Harold L. Wilensky -- Professionals in bureaucracy : alienation among industrial scientists and engineers / George A. Miller -- Organizational alienation : a comparative analysis / Michael Aiken and Jerald Hage.
• pt. 5. Organizations in other industrial societies -- The impact of ideas on organizational structure / Reinhard Bendix -- Organizational contrasts on British and American ships / Stephen A. Richardson -- The French bureaucratic system of organization / Michel Crozier -- A problem in Soviet business administration / Joseph S. Berliner -- Productivity in the Japanese factory / james C. Abegglen.

ISBN

• 0029131804
• 9780029131800

LCCN

69020286

OCLC

• ocm00052100
• 52100
• SCSB-8791151

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library