Organizational company

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Organizational society is a more recent sociological term to designate modern societies with extensive formal organizations in almost all areas of life and function. The structure formative socialization form the organization applies since Max Weber and Talcott Parsons as a necessary regulatory instruments for the constant and division of labor cooperation of people in complex societies.

“Only modern society is truly an organizational society . Companies, state administrations, schools and universities, hospitals, courts, research institutes, the military, churches, museums, newspapers, television stations, political parties, associations, cooperatives, associations. This list is striking even without attempting to be complete. "

- Uwe Schimank : 2001, organizational company, p. 278.

literature

  • Wieland Jäger / Uwe Schimank (eds.): Organizational company. Facets and perspectives . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006.
  • Walther Müller-Jentsch : Modern society is an organizational society . In. ders .: organizational sociology . Campus, Frankfurt am Main, p. 15ff.
  • Charles Perrow : 1989: A Society of Organizations . In: Journal for Social Research, vol. 28/1989, pp. 3-19.
  • Uwe Schimank: Organizational company . In: Georg Kneer / Armin Nassehi / Markus Schroer (eds.): Classical social terms in sociology . W. Fink (UTB), Munich 2001, pp. 278-307.