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Mark John Somers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • AMCIS - Paradigm and Pluralism: Using Theory from Occupational Sociology and the Sociology of the Professions to Frame an Identity for IS
    2008
    Co-Authors: Mark John Somers
    Abstract:

    Concern that high levels of pluralism within IS have frustrated the development of a strong identity are evident in the literature. Rather than proposing an identity for IS, this paper uses theory and research from Occupational Sociology and the Sociology of professions to analyze the processes involved in establishing boundaries for the field, for defining errors of inclusion and exclusion, and for shaping an IS identity. It is argued that prior work misapplies an organizational metaphor to IS and this misspecification excludes important processes in the evolution of professions including level of paradigm development, culture and control within professions, and the role of professions in social status hierarchies. The paper concludes with a discussion of the challenges facing IS and suggestions for addressing them.

  • paradigm and pluralism using theory from Occupational Sociology and the Sociology of the professions to frame an identity for is
    Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2008
    Co-Authors: Mark John Somers
    Abstract:

    Concern that high levels of pluralism within IS have frustrated the development of a strong identity are evident in the literature. Rather than proposing an identity for IS, this paper uses theory and research from Occupational Sociology and the Sociology of professions to analyze the processes involved in establishing boundaries for the field, for defining errors of inclusion and exclusion, and for shaping an IS identity. It is argued that prior work misapplies an organizational metaphor to IS and this misspecification excludes important processes in the evolution of professions including level of paradigm development, culture and control within professions, and the role of professions in social status hierarchies. The paper concludes with a discussion of the challenges facing IS and suggestions for addressing them.

Barney G. Glaser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Organizational Careers: A Sourcebook for Theory
    2017
    Co-Authors: Barney G. Glaser
    Abstract:

    Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of Occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic, Glaser gathered from the literature of Occupational Sociology those studies that bear most directly on organizational careers. His objective was to provide the fi rst survey of the substantial body of data on the subject and to place this data in a framework that illustrates its signifi cance for the development of theory.

Samuel Porter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Martin Schmeiser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Die Arbeitsgruppe Professionssoziologie und die Randständigkeit der Professionssoziologie im deutschsprachigen Raum
    Soziologie, 2006
    Co-Authors: Martin Schmeiser
    Abstract:

    The article analyzes the consequences of the marginal status of the Sociology of Professions in Germany during the last decades on the efforts of the new working group “Sociology of Professions.” This new working group has been established in order to make professions an attractive research topic. First it will be demonstrated that a lack of a solid grounding in the international literature influences the new efforts to publish textbooks. Second it will be shown that there is a missing historical perspective in the old and new Sociology of professions in Germany. Finally everything seems to indicate that the new working group is more interested in questions of general Sociology and Occupational Sociology than in questions of a Sociology of professions. Untersucht wird, welche Folgen der marginale Status professionssoziologischen Arbeitens innerhalb der deutschen Soziologie der zurückliegenden Jahrzehnte für die Bemühungen der neu gegründeten „Arbeitsgruppe Professionssoziologie“ hat, Professionen wieder zu einem attraktiven Gegenstand soziologischer Forschung zu machen. Gezeigt wird zunächst, wie die fehlenden Aufarbeitungen der internationalen professionssoziologischen Literatur sich auch noch in den neuen Bemühungen bemerkbar machen, lehrbuchähnliche Veröffentlichungen vorzulegen, insofern diese Publikationen ein Systematisierungsproblem aufweisen. Daneben zeichnet sich ab, dass die fehlende historische Perspektive der deutschsprachigen Professionssoziologie der zurückliegenden Jahrzehnte tradiert wird. Und schliesslich existieren Anzeichen dafür, dass die Gegenstandsbestimmung unspezifisch gerät. Statt genuin professionssoziologischer Perspektiven werden allgemein- und berufssoziologische Fragestellungen verfolgt.

Jeremy Tunstall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Media Industry Perspective
    Annals of the International Communication Association, 2016
    Co-Authors: Jeremy Tunstall
    Abstract:

    This chapter argues for an industrial perspective in media studies. Such a perspective was adopted by several founding fathers of media research. An industrial approach can draw upon relevant research traditions in several fields of social science; the insights of organizational studies are one example. Contemporary media are characterized by large, complex organizations. An Occupational Sociology perspective reveals that media organizations have characteristic Occupational strata. In the middle are the “professionals” and technical/production work force, and at the bottom there is a layer of unskilled extras. At the top of media organizations are entrepreneurs, baronial executives, and celebrity performers. Media research has tended to leave these starry individuals to the popular press, but, in doing so, has ignored much that is important to, and characteristic of, the media industry. Comparative studies between national media industries can be instructive. This chapter reviews a number of recent Britis...