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Title
Max Weber and the sociology of organization : reflections on a concept of pre-modern organization / Philipp Jakobs.
ISBN
9783658402877 (electronic bk.)
3658402873 (electronic bk.)
9783658402860
3658402865
Published
Wiesbaden : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (v, 84 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-658-40287-7 doi
Call Number
HM786
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.3/5
Summary
In today's organizational sociology, organizations are usually regarded as late achievements of modernity in the history of mankind. Max Weber is repeatedly cited as the supposed guarantor of this thesis. But neither his type of "bureaucratic rule" nor his concept of "rational work organization" - although both are tailored to modern conditions - contain, on closer inspection, compelling arguments for a principled limitation of organizations as such to modernity. Both actually reach their depth of focus only in contrast to "pre-modern" forms of organization. A sociology of organization that wants to refer to Max Weber's work while avoiding the numerous common misunderstandings of its reception must broaden its historical view and consider the possibility of "pre-modern organizations". The author Philipp Jakobs is a research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Sociology at the University of Bonn, where he is doing his doctorate on economic organizations from a historical-sociological perspective. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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Print version: 9783658402860
Organization as a theory of modernity
American neo-institutionalism
Political economy of organization
Systems theory
History of concepts
Max Weber and the sociology of organization
On the reception of Max Weber in the sociology of organization
"Bureaucracy" and "rational labor organization" as organizations
"Bureaucratic rule"
Rational labor organization
On the concept of pre-modern organization
Internal structure of organizations
External relations of organizations
Struggling organizations. .
