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Formal organizations: a comparative approach
In: Stanford business classics
The dynamics of bureaucracy: a study of interpersonal relations in 2 government agencies
In: Open university set book
In: A Phoenix book
A Circuitous path to Macrostructural Theory
In: Annual review of sociology, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1545-2115
I introduce this memoir about my academic career by describing the fortuitous incidents involved in my coming to this country and becoming a sociologist. In graduate school my sociological orientation changed under the influence of Merton and Lazarsfeld from grand theories to systematic theory grounded in research. My dissertation was a field study of bureaucracy in terms of Weber's theory, which led to a book on exchange theory. Next I collaborated with Duncan on a nationwide study of occupational achievement and mobility, for which I learned regression analysis, reluctantly at first, but later becoming converted to it. During the next decade I conducted a research program on bureaucracy, specifically of quantitative studies of various types of formal organizations, from which I developed a limited organizational theory. The limitations of this theory prompted me to construct a formal macrostructural theory of population structure's influences on intergroup relations, which was subsequently tested in empirical research on the 125 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
Putting Coleman's Transition Right-Side Up
In: Analyse & Kritik: journal of philosophy and social theory, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 3-10
ISSN: 2365-9858
Abstract
Coleman states that social phenomena cannot be directly accounted for by their social antecedents without analyzing three intervening steps: what motives the antecedents create, how these affect individual behavior, and the transition from the acts of interdependent individuals to social phenomena. The last is most important. I agree, but Foundations has its causal link upside down. Reanalyzing some of his cases, I try to show that macrostructures are not the product of microfoundations but the existential conditions that circumscribe individuals' choices.
Implications of Growth in Services for Social Structure
In: Social science quarterly, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 3-22
ISSN: 0038-4941
A theoretical analysis of growth in services & its implications for social structure focuses on the effects of growth in services on heterogeneity, inequality, intersecting social differentiation, & social integration. Census data indicate that continuing growth in services has: (1) increased occupational heterogeneity, particularly in densely populated areas; (2) decreased educational & occupational inequality; (3) promoted greater intersection of social differences; (4) reduced sex differences in labor force participation; & (5) reduced race differences in education, occupation, & income. These structural influences are predicted by the theory to increase integrative intergroup relations. These predictions can be tested by ascertaining the link between growth in services & structural conditions, & the influence of structural conditions on intergroup relations. 2 Tables. Modified AA.
A Macrosociological Theory of Social Structure
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 83, Heft 1, S. 26-54
ISSN: 1537-5390
Technology and organization in manufacturing [relationships between plant technology and four dimensions of internal structure: differentiation, the size of various personnel components, supervisory spans of control, and decentralization of decision-making authority; uses data from a study of 110 Ne...
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 21, S. 20-40
ISSN: 0001-8392
Dialectical Sociology: Comments
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 182-188
ISSN: 1475-682X
Sociological Analysis: Current Trends and Personal Practice
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 119-130
ISSN: 1475-682X
The Hierarchy of Authority in Organizations
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 73, Heft 4, S. 453-467
ISSN: 1537-5390
Introduction
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 70, S. 1-4
ISSN: 1537-5390
Justice in Social Exchange
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 193-206
ISSN: 1475-682X