Peter M. Blau

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A Fable About Social Structure, in Social Forces
by Peter M. Blau. 12 pgs.

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Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach
by Peter M. Blau, W. Scott Richard. 316 pgs.

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Contents

Tables

Preface

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Nature and Types Of Formal Organizations

Chapter Three: The Organization and Its Publics

Chapter Four: The Social Structure of Work Groups

Chapter Five: Processes of Communication

Chapter Six: The Role of the Supervisor

Chapter Seven: Managerial Control

Chapter Eight: The Social Context Of Organizational Life

Chapter Nine: Organizational Dynamics

Appendix: Description and Comparison Of the Two Welfare Agencies

Index of Names

Index of Topics
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Interpersonal Choice and Networks in China, in Social Forces
by Peter M. Blau, Danching Ruan, Monika Ardelt. 26 pgs.

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Intersecting Social Affiliations and Intermarriage, in Social Forces
by Peter M. Blau, Carolyn Beeker, Kevin M. Fitzpatrick. 22 pgs.

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Group Size, Heterogeneity, and Intergroup Conflict: A Test of Blau's Inequality and Heterogeneity, in Social Forces
by Robert J. Sampson. 22 pgs.

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Racial Inequality and Salience: An Examination of Blau's Theory of Social Structure, in Social Forces
by Terry C. Blum. 11 pgs.

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The Concept of Social Structure (Discussion of Peter M. Blau in multiple chapters)
by Douglas V. Porpora. 159 pgs.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Structural Sociology and the Durkheimian Conception of Social Structure On the Prospects for a Nomothetic Theory of Social Structure The Concept of Purposive Action Purposive versus Mechanistic Explanations of Action Narrative and the Realist Philosophy of Science: Toward a New Model of Explanation The Durkheimian and Marxian Conceptions of Social Structure Carrying the Marxian Concept of Social Structure Beyond Marx Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Structural Sociology and the Durkheimian Conception of Social Structure

3: On the Prospects for a Nomothetic Theory of Social Structure

4: The Concept of Purposive Action

5: Purposive versus Mechanistic Explanations of Action

6: Narrative and the Realist Philosophy of Science: Toward a New Model of Explanation

7: The Durkheimian and Marxian Conceptions of Social Structure

8: Carrying the Marxian Conception of Social Structure beyond Marx

9: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Bureaucracy and the Public: A Reader in Official-Client Relations (Chap. 12 "Orientation toward Clients in a Public Welfare Agency" by Peter M. Blau)
by Brenda Danet, Elihu Katz. 534 pgs.

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Introduction: Bureaucracy as a Problem for Sociology and Society

Part I: Environmental Factors: Culture and Community

1: Expectations of Treatment by Government and the Police

2: The Social Bases of Bureaucratic Organization

3: Bureaucracy and Thelower Class

4: Some Sociological Observations on the Response of Israeli Organizations to New Immigrants

5: Environment and Organization: a Perspective on the Police

6: Child Training in Entrepreneurial and Bureaucratic Families

7: Behavioral Study of Obedience

8: Bureaucratic Man: a Portrait and an Interpretation

Part II: The Influence of the Organization: Goals, Roles, and Structures

9: Petitions and Persuasive Appeals: a Study of Official-Client Relations

10: Organizations and Output Transactions

11: Organizational Goals and Inmate Organization

12: Orientation toward Clients in a Public Welfare Agency

13: Social Security and Its Relations with Beneficiaries: the Problem of Bureaucracy in Social Administration

14: When Workers and Customers Meet

Part III: Situational Influences: the Physical and Social Setting

15: Pressures and Defenses in Bureaucratic Roles

16: Power-Orientations in the Mental Hospital

17: The Underlife of a Public Institution

18: Giving the Underdog a Break: Latent Particularism among Customs Officials

19: Trust and the Cab Driver

20: Variations in Patients' Compliance with Doctors' Advice: an Empirical Analysis of Patterns of Communication

21: Pygmalion in the Classroom

Part IV: Making Organizations Work for People: Strategies for Innovation and Change

22: Confining Public Administration without Crippling It

23: What Can Be Done: a Neighborhood Lawyer's Credo

24: The British Citizens' Advice Bureaus: an Overview

25: Consumer Rights

26: Home Moving

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Name Index

Subject Index
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Sociologists at Work: Essays on the Craft of Social Research (Chap. 2 "The Research Process in the Study of The Dynamics of Bureaucracy" by Peter M. Blau)
by Phillip E. Hammond. 401 pgs.

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The Authors

Contents

1: Introduction

2: The Research Process in the Study of

3: Preconceptions and Methods in

4: The Biography of a Research Project

5: The Evaluators

6: Research Chronicle

7: Cross-Cultural Analysis: a Case Study

8: Research Chronicle

9: Great Books and Small Groups

10: The Sociability Project: a Chronicle of Frustration and Achievement

11: First Days in the Field

12: An American Sociologist in the Land of Belgian Medical Research

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The Formal Organization ("A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations" by Peter M. Blau begins on p. 185)
by Richard H. Hall. 290 pgs.

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Issues and Trends in Soc Iology

The Authors

Preface

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Figures and Tables

Introduction

Part I: The Nature of Organizations

1: B Urea Ucracy and "Rationality" in Weber's Organization Theory: an Empirical Study

2: Dimensions of Organization Structure

Part II: The Impact of External Factors on Organizations

3: Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals

4: The Context of Organization Structures

5: Organizations and Clients: Lateral and Longitudinal Dimensions

Part III: The Impact of Internal Factors on Organizations

6: Interdependence and Inequality: a Specification of the Davis-Moore Theory

7: Professionalization and Bureaucratization

8: Commitment and Conflict in a Normative Organization

Part IV: Some Consequences of Organizational Structure

9: A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations

10: Professionals in Bureaucracy: Alienation among Industrial Scientists and Engineers

11: Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational Structure

12: Multiversity, University Size, University Quality, and Student Protest: an Empirical Study

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