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This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies.
Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are
observable in the administrative structures of other types of
organisations. This text examines the institutions of higher
education, which Blau believes are the formal organisations that
differ most in objectives and performance from government
bureaucracies.
Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding
texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse
approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal
organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from
attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a
broader understanding of organizations as collective actors. In the
book, the authors reviewed multiple types of studies-including case
studies, experimental research, and surveys-and integrated them to
define new central themes. They used their own empirical studies of
two social welfare agencies to illustrate the ways in which varying
organizational contexts shape work group and participant attitudes
and activities. Formal Organizations served to integrate research
on both formal and informal systems, authority and leadership, and
stressed the importance of links to the wider environment. This
reissue, which includes a new introduction by Scott, makes this
seminal work accessible to a new generation of scholars and
practitioners.
Peter M. Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan pen a classic source of
empirical information on the patterns of occupational achievement
in American society. Based on an unusually comprehensive set of
data, The American Occupational Structure is renowned for its
pioneering methods of statistical analysis, as well as its
far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupation
mobility in the United States. Presenting "sociology at its
scientific best" (Fortune), The American Occupation Structure
received the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association
in recognition of its significant contribution to the social
sciences.
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