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Organizing Modernity: New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organizations and Society

Ray, Larry J. and Reed, Michael, eds. (1994) Organizing Modernity: New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organizations and Society. Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-08917-3. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38804)

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Abstract

Organizing Modernity provides a reassessment of the significance of Max Weber's work for the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity. It re-evalutates Weber's sociology of bureaucracy and his general account of the trajectory of modernity with reference to the strategic social structures that dominated the emergence and development of modern society. Included here are detailed analyses of contemporary issues such as the collapse of communism, fordism, coporatism and traditionalism in both Western and Eastern societies. All of the contributors are scholars of international repute. They undertake analyses of Weber's texts and his broader intellectual inheritance to reassert the centrality of Weberian sociology for our understanding of the moral, political and organizational dilemmas of late modernity. These analyses challenge orthodox readings of Weber as the prophet of the iron cage. Instead they offer interpretations of his work which emphasize the reality of modernity as a dual process with the potential for both disarticulation of rational structures and deeper colonization of daily life. Not only is this book essential reading for Weber specialists but it also provides compelling analyses of modernity and the inherently contingent nature of global cultural and stuctural transformation.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2014 11:57 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38804 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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