Knowledge about Organizations That Every Sociologist Needs
Knowledge about Organizations That Every Sociologist Needs
Monday, 7 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: SJES005 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC17 Sociology of Organization (host committee) RC02 Economy and Society
RC24 Environment and Society
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change
Language: English
There is barely any area of society that is not populated by organizations, and therefore almost all sociologists are confronted with organizations in their research one way or the other – be it in the form of corporations, social movement organizations, international organizations, environmental agencies, NGOs, civil society organizations, hospitals, administrations, political parties, voluntary associations, sports clubs, media companies, platform organizations, police, rescue services, schools, universities, or social services. Hence, basic knowledge about what organization is, how they work, and what they do, can be seen as essential for every sociologist. However, such basic knowledge about organizations is not easily accessible. Organizational Sociology is nowadays deeply intermingled with the discipline of Organization Studies – a vast field with countless journals, books, and works about any aspect of organization. For anyone who is not directly engaged with the research in this field – and this includes most sociologists – it has become practically impossible to identify relevant fundamental organizational insights. As a consequence, many sociologists today work with everyday assumptions and/or outdated theories about how organizations work. Against this backdrop, the goal of this session is to present fundamental and particularly counterintuitive sociological insights into how organizations work. The presentations in this session will leverage the existing knowledge in organizational sociology and offer short and easy introductions to basic insights that can help non-organizational sociologists in their research – especially but not only those working in economic and environmental sociology, studies in social change, and sociology of work.
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Oral Presentations
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