Philip Selznick
Biographic Data
| ID | 183288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Selznick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Selznick |
| SIGNATURE | SELZNICK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 887 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sociology and Natural Law
AMONG MODERN SOCIOLOGISTS, the reputation of natural law is not high.The phrase conjures up a world of absolutisms, of theological fiat, of fuzzy, unoperational, "mystical" ideas, of thinking uninformed by history and by the variety of human situations.This is sad, because sociology should have a ready affinity for the philosophy of natural law.Both are anti-formalist in spirit.Each looks beyond what is given and immediate to what is latent and i…
Law in Context’ Revisited
Although ‘Law in Context’ is a well‐known motto for law‐and‐society scholarship, the idea could benefit from closer examination. This paper introduces a principle of `fidelity to context' and suggests that contexts may be transcended by invoking general purposes and principles. These issues have special relevance for contextual analysis of free speech, academic freedom, and other rights and responsibilities. I also consider the relevance of legal…
Institutionalism "Old" and "New"
Human Rights and the Search for Community
State and Party in America's New Deal.Kenneth Finegold , Theda Skocpol
Thinking about community
Books in review
Communitarianism and Its Critics
Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting and defending a distinctively communitarian theory against the objections of a liberal critic. In a Paris cafe Anne, a strong supporter of communitarian ideals, and Philip, her querulous critic, de…
The moral commonwealth
The Idea of a Communitarian Morality
During the past few years, and especially since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue in 1981, we have seen a renewed attack on the premises of liberalism.'There is nothing new about such criticism.A long list of writers-Hegel, Marx, Dewey, and many others, including several Popes-have recoiled in various ways from what seemed to be an impoverished morality and an inadequate understanding of human society.The contemporary criticism…
Leadership in administration
Tva and the Grass Roots
Five Introductory Sociology Textbooks
Sociology
Legal Orders and the Dynamics of Change
Essentials of Sociology from Sociology
Lon L. Fuller, 1902-1978
Rejoinder to Donald J. Black
Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
The Morality of Law
Sociology
Invitation to Sociology
Without belittling its scientific procedures, Professor Berger stresses the humanistic affinity of sociology with history and philosophy. It is a discipline which encourages a fuller awareness of the human world, with the purpose of bettering it. The author's comments on the social institutions which men have shaped and on the men whom these institutions, in their turn, have moulded (together with his outline of the contributions of such major so…
A Normative Theory of Culture
The time has come for forthright consideration of a rapprochement between the humanist and social science concepts of culture. This is needed, not only to overcome one version of the two-cultures split, but also to provide a better theoretical foundation for the sociology of culture. It is argued that this outcome may be achieved in a theory that stresses (a) the psychic source of culture in the quest for person-centered meanings and authentic ex…
Sociology
Leadership in administration
Tva and the Grass Roots
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
T RADES unions, governments, business corporations, political parties, and the like are formal structures in the sense that they represent rationally ordered instruments for the achievement of stated goals. Organization, we are told, the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities.' Or, defined more generally, formal organization is system of consciou…
An Approach to a Theory of Bureaucracy
i) In an intensive examination of a shop department, Roethlisberger and Dickson found clear evidences of an informal structure. This structure consisted of a set of procedures (binging, sarcasm, ridicule) by means of which control over members of the group was exercised, the formation of cliques which functioned as instruments of control, and the establishment of informal leadership. men had elaborated, spontaneously and quite unconsciously, an i…
The Organizational Weapon
An analysis of communist organizational strategy as applied in bolshevik type of party and the peripheral or "front" organizations manipulated by it. In addition, the strategy and tactics of political combat, whereby labor unions and other voluntary associations and institutions become organizational targets for communist penetration and control, are discussed
A Normative Theory of Culture
The time has come for forthright consideration of a rapprochement between the humanist and social science concepts of culture. This is needed, not only to overcome one version of the two-cultures split, but also to provide a better theoretical foundation for the sociology of culture. It is argued that this outcome may be achieved in a theory that stresses (a) the psychic source of culture in the quest for person-centered meanings and authentic ex…
Sociology
The Social Theories of Talcott Parsons
Institutional Vulnerability in Mass Society
The vulnerability of institutions to political manipulation increases as society becomes increasingly a mass society. This development is pathological. It is associated with the debilitation of creative and culture sustaining elites and with changes in the quality of social participation which lead to both cultural attenuation and activist involvement. Existing insight on the nature of "mass" populations and institutions is reformulated and devel…
Law in Context’ Revisited
Although ‘Law in Context’ is a well‐known motto for law‐and‐society scholarship, the idea could benefit from closer examination. This paper introduces a principle of `fidelity to context' and suggests that contexts may be transcended by invoking general purposes and principles. These issues have special relevance for contextual analysis of free speech, academic freedom, and other rights and responsibilities. I also consider the relevance of legal…
Grass Roots Democracy-Myth or Reality
Sociology
Invitation to Sociology
Without belittling its scientific procedures, Professor Berger stresses the humanistic affinity of sociology with history and philosophy. It is a discipline which encourages a fuller awareness of the human world, with the purpose of bettering it. The author's comments on the social institutions which men have shaped and on the men whom these institutions, in their turn, have moulded (together with his outline of the contributions of such major so…
Thinking about community
Character and Social Structure
Communitarianism and Its Critics
Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting and defending a distinctively communitarian theory against the objections of a liberal critic. In a Paris cafe Anne, a strong supporter of communitarian ideals, and Philip, her querulous critic, de…
The Organizational Weapon
Old Age and Political Behavior
Organizations
An Approach to a Theory of Bureaucracy
i) In an intensive examination of a shop department, Roethlisberger and Dickson found clear evidences of an informal structure. This structure consisted of a set of procedures (binging, sarcasm, ridicule) by means of which control over members of the group was exercised, the formation of cliques which functioned as instruments of control, and the establishment of informal leadership. men had elaborated, spontaneously and quite unconsciously, an i…
Foundations of the Theory of Organization
T RADES unions, governments, business corporations, political parties, and the like are formal structures in the sense that they represent rationally ordered instruments for the achievement of stated goals. Organization, we are told, the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities.' Or, defined more generally, formal organization is system of consciou…
TVA and the Grass Roots
Grass Roots Democracy-Myth or Reality
Fundamentals of World Organization.Werner Levi
Institutional Vulnerability in Mass Society
The vulnerability of institutions to political manipulation increases as society becomes increasingly a mass society. This development is pathological. It is associated with the debilitation of creative and culture sustaining elites and with changes in the quality of social participation which lead to both cultural attenuation and activist involvement. Existing insight on the nature of "mass" populations and institutions is reformulated and devel…
The Organizational Weapon
An analysis of communist organizational strategy as applied in bolshevik type of party and the peripheral or "front" organizations manipulated by it. In addition, the strategy and tactics of political combat, whereby labor unions and other voluntary associations and institutions become organizational targets for communist penetration and control, are discussed
The Organizational Weapon
Faces in the Crowd
Character and Social Structure
Sociology
Sociological Theory
Behavior and Administration
Organizations
Old Age and Political Behavior
Old Age and Political Behaviour
Old Age and Political Behavior
The Organizational Weapon
Old Age and Political Behavior
The Organizational Weapon, a Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics
The Organizational Weapon
The Social Theories of Talcott Parsons
Sociology
Invitation to Sociology
Without belittling its scientific procedures, Professor Berger stresses the humanistic affinity of sociology with history and philosophy. It is a discipline which encourages a fuller awareness of the human world, with the purpose of bettering it. The author's comments on the social institutions which men have shaped and on the men whom these institutions, in their turn, have moulded (together with his outline of the contributions of such major so…
A Normative Theory of Culture
The time has come for forthright consideration of a rapprochement between the humanist and social science concepts of culture. This is needed, not only to overcome one version of the two-cultures split, but also to provide a better theoretical foundation for the sociology of culture. It is argued that this outcome may be achieved in a theory that stresses (a) the psychic source of culture in the quest for person-centered meanings and authentic ex…
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