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An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a delightful mix of large theoretical insights and vivid anecdotal material, Stinchcombe explores the ins and outs of organizations from both a macro and micro perspective. He reinterprets the work of the renowned scholars of business, Alfred Chandler, James March and Oliver Williamson, and looks in depth at corporations like DuPont and General Motors. Along the way, Stinchcombe explores subjects as varied as class consciousness, innovation, contracts and university administration. All of these analyses are distinguished by incisive thinking and creative new approaches to issues that have long confronted business people and those interested in organizational theory. A tour de force, Information and Organizations is a must-read for business people and scholars of many stripes. It promises to be a widely discussed and debated work.

Industrial sociology. --- Industrial organization. --- Organizational behavior. --- Management information systems. --- Uncertainty. --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Behavior in organizations --- Industries --- Organization --- Reasoning --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Communication systems --- Social aspects --- Management information systems --- Organizational behavior --- Uncertainty --- #SBIB:316.334.2A500 --- #SBIB:35H300 --- Organisatiesociologie: algemeen --- Organisatieleer: algemene werken --- alfred chandler. --- artisans. --- business and industry. --- business. --- capitalism. --- centralization. --- certainty. --- consumers. --- cost reduction. --- decentralization. --- division of labor. --- divisionalization. --- dupont. --- general motors. --- industrial revolution. --- information systems. --- innovation. --- james march. --- macroeconomics. --- market forces. --- mass production. --- microeconomics. --- monopoly. --- nonfiction. --- oliver williamson. --- organizational structure. --- organizational theory. --- organizations. --- political science. --- professionals. --- sears. --- social science. --- uncertainty. --- wholesaling. --- workers.

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The essays in this collection, on stratification, organization and the discipline of sociology, all bear upon a general theoretical question: what models of rationality are necessary or suitable to explain individual and collective action in institutional contexts? Professor Stinchcombe was one of the first sociologists to write on this question; and this collection includes a new essay which takes account of recent work done in the tradition Stinchcombe did much to institute. The first group of essays - on class, stratification and mobility - addresses core problems of the discipline and offers imaginative conceptualizations with interesting empirical consequences. The second section - essays on the sociology of organizations - displays, like the first, Stinchcombe's wide knowledge of sociological traditions from structuralism to Marxism. The final section, 'comments on the discipline', deepens the readers understanding of sociological theorizing by presenting different modes of analysis of universities and research institutions and providing challenging, and often funny, insights into the subject.

Social stratification --- Sociology of organization --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Social structure. --- Social classes. --- Sociologists. --- Social mobility. --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- Behavioral scientists --- Social scientists --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions

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Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from his own much admired Economic Sociology to show why sugar planters needed the help of repressive governments for recruiting disciplined labor. Demonstrating that island-to-island variations on this theme were a function of geography, local political economy, and relation to outside powers, he scrutinizes Caribbean slavery and Caribbean emancipation movements in a world-historical context. Throughout the book, Stinchcombe aims to develop a sociology of freedom that explains a number of complex phenomena, such as how liberty for some individuals may restrict the liberty of others. Thus, the autonomous governments of colonies often produced more oppressive conditions for slaves than did so-called arbitrary governments, which had the power to restrict the whims of the planters. Even after emancipation, freedom was not a clear-cut matter of achieving the ideals of the Enlightenment. Indeed, it was often a route to a social control more efficient than slavery, providing greater flexibility for the planter class and posing less risk of violent rebellion.

Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History. --- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area -- History. --- Slave-trade -- Caribbean Area -- History. --- Sugar workers -- Caribbean Area -- History. --- Slavery --- Slave-trade --- Sugar workers --- Slaves --- Communities - Social Classes --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- History --- Emancipation --- Slave trade --- History. --- Esclaves --- Esclavage --- Sucre, Travailleurs du --- history --- Commerce --- Histoire --- Affranchissement --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Sugar trade --- Employees --- Caribbean Area

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Educational sociology --- Adolescence --- High schools --- Youth

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Educational sociology --- Adolescence --- High schools --- Youth