Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors. In the book, the authors reviewed multiple types of studies--including case studies, experimental research, and surveys--and integrated them to define new central themes. They used their own empirical studies of two...
Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it present...
Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the Influence social structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed among social positions. Examples are a community's racial composition, division of labor, ethnic heterogeneity, income Inequality, or the extent to which educational differences are related to income differences. Blau and Schwartz test their theory by...
Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other, and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan a...
logie, was ihre Organisationsform angeht, sehr viel kooperativer sel; m Euro ." sei dagegen ein "exzessiver Individualismus" vorherrschend; fast jeder Autor, so Mannheim (1932: 273), "halt es fUr notwendig, von yom anzufangen, und die Mehrzahl der Gelehrten ist stolz, daB sie ein eigenes System erdacht haben." Man spreche zwar viel iiber soziale Arbeitsteilung, aber man sei selbst kaum bereit, sie zu praktizieren. Es gibt also so etwas wie eine scientific community in der ameri kanischen Soziologie und mit ihr offen bar auch Wissensfortschritte, die auf einer weitgehenden kognitiven...
logie, was ihre Organisationsform angeht, sehr viel kooperativer sel; m Euro ." sei dagegen ein "exzessiver Individualismus" vorherrschend; fast jeder...
