Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship

Stewart Clegg is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, as well as Professor of Project Management at the University of Sydney. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant contemporary theorists on both power relations and organization studies. Michael Grothe-Hammer is Associate Professor in Sociology (Organization and Technology) at the Department of Sociology and Political Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He is also President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Kathia Serrano Velarde is Professor of Sociology at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg University, Germany. She is also Vice-President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Organizations of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

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