Paul M Hirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 222915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul M Hirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirsch |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCH P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 949 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Can a leader of moral character survive and do good in a corrupt organization
Cultural industries in international business research
Processing Fads and Fashions
In modern, industrial societies, the production and distribution of both fine art and popular culture entail relationships among a complex network of organizations which both facilitate and regulate the innovation process. This chapter outlines the structure and operation of entrepreneurial organizations engaged in the production and mass distribution of three types of "cultural" items: books, recordings, and motion pictures. The publishing house…
Elites on Trial
In 2008, the world entered a new period of turmoil. Financial markets collapsed, banks and other financial institutions went in to crisis; credit dried up, consumption reduced and firms started to cut back and reduce investment in the light of uncertainty. Unemployment increased and welfare payments increased. States that borrowed to save their banks and to maintain their spending found the financial markets and the international institutions con…
Elites on Trial
Terkel, Studs
A Durkheimian Approach to Globalization
The work of Émile Durkheim, and particularly his theory of the division of labor, occupies a somewhat peculiar place in the pantheon of classical sociologists. This article extends Durkheim's analysis of Europe's transformations in the early twentieth century to suggest how his theoretical apparatus might be used to interpret subsequent developments in the twenty-first. In particular, it suggests that Durkheim's concern with solidarity—a key them…
A Master Reflects on the Sociology of Work and the Discipline
William Form helped found the field of work and occupations. He also headed the American Sociological Association during some of its most turbulent years. In this autobiography, Form shares his story and reflections on how the field has developed and his experiences with some of our most important and colorful forbears. As C. Wright Mills's only doctoral student, and the first sociologist to document that the working class, across nations, is not…
Organizational Restructuring and its Consequences
In this review, we examine the idea of organizational restructuring as a conceptual tool and how it has been used to alter societal definitions and interpretations of employment. Although use of the term restructuring is relatively recent, the broad issue of changing employment conditions with which it is concerned has a long history, going back to the industrial revolution. Our main focus is a consideration of the causes and consequences of rest…
The Discourse of Globalization
While the literature on framing has importantly expanded our understanding of frame creation and contests from an interpretive point of view, previous studies have largely neglected the structural contexts in which framing activities occur. In this study, we propose extending the framing approach by incorporating insights from the literature on sensemaking to examine how and when opportunities for meaning creation open up and how this affects sub…
The Dark Side of Alliances
Social movements, field frames and industry emergence
This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. We build on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social structures of meanings and resources that underpin and stabilize practices and social organization. Drawing on the case of how non-profit recyclers and th…
An Interview with Studs Terkel
Cultural Industries Revisited
In my early “Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems” (1972), the middle “throughput” phase, or most organizational aspect of cultural industries, was emphasized. In this depoliticized exploration of what Adorno (1991) had earlier characterized as the industrialization of high culture, and Powdermaker (1950) as Hollywood's “dream factory,” I emphasized the key roles of gatekeeper and distributor org…
Doing sociology and culture
Chapter 10. Processing Fads and Fashions
Rejoinder to Scott
Ending the Family Quarrel
Over the past couple of decades, research in organizational sociology has shifted away from the contextual richness of action perspectives toward more structuralist paradigms. DiMaggio and Powell's distinction between what they label the "old" and "new" institutionalisms highlights this general trend. The present authors offer a critical review of this generational paradigm debate among institutional theorists and challenge DiMaggio and Powell's …
Tales from the Field
Globalization of Mass Media Ownership
During the last decade, the United States lost its dominance as the owner and producer of mass communication, both domestically and around the world. The globalization of ownership of mass media content, production, and technology has major implications for audience definitions and theories about who controls these media, for what purposes, and with what effects. The articles in this special issue are the first collection to address the issues ra…
Rational Choice Models for Sociology - Pro and Con
Dirty hands? versus ?clean models
From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes
Ownership contests for control of large American corporations have become increasingly problematic and public with the advent of the "hostile takeover." This article examines the diffusion of this once "deviant" innovation. Its focus is on the relationship between changing business practices and American business culture; more specifically, on how the processes of the normative framing of hostile takeovers facilitated their diffusion and legitima…
U.S. Cultural Productions
Journal Article U.S. Cultural Productions: The Impact of Ownership Get access Paul M. Hirsch Paul M. Hirsch 1Paul M. Hirsch is Professor of Sociology and Business Policy, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Funds for the research on which this article is based were generously provided by grants from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation and Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organizations. The author is grateful to Steven Str…
On the Edge of the Organization
Processing Fads and Fashions
Organizations engaged in the production and mass distribution of "cultural" items are often confronted by highly uncertain environments at their input and output boundaries. This paper outlines the structure and operation of entrepreneurial organizations in the most speculative segments of three cultural industries: book publishing, phonograph records, and motion pictures. Commercial cultural products are conceived as nonmaterial goods, directed …
The Discourse of Globalization
While the literature on framing has importantly expanded our understanding of frame creation and contests from an interpretive point of view, previous studies have largely neglected the structural contexts in which framing activities occur. In this study, we propose extending the framing approach by incorporating insights from the literature on sensemaking to examine how and when opportunities for meaning creation open up and how this affects sub…
Social movements, field frames and industry emergence
This article examines how social movements contribute to institutional change and the creation of new industries. We build on current efforts to bridge institutional and social movement perspectives in sociology and develop the concept of field frame to study how industries are shaped by social structures of meanings and resources that underpin and stabilize practices and social organization. Drawing on the case of how non-profit recyclers and th…
Television as a cultural forum
1983). Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 8, The Economic and Political Structure of American Television, pp. 45-55
From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes
Ownership contests for control of large American corporations have become increasingly problematic and public with the advent of the "hostile takeover." This article examines the diffusion of this once "deviant" innovation. Its focus is on the relationship between changing business practices and American business culture; more specifically, on how the processes of the normative framing of hostile takeovers facilitated their diffusion and legitima…
Ending the Family Quarrel
Over the past couple of decades, research in organizational sociology has shifted away from the contextual richness of action perspectives toward more structuralist paradigms. DiMaggio and Powell's distinction between what they label the "old" and "new" institutionalisms highlights this general trend. The present authors offer a critical review of this generational paradigm debate among institutional theorists and challenge DiMaggio and Powell's …
Dirty hands? versus ?clean models
Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon
Social scientists have long theorized about &dquomass society&dquo and &dquomass culture&dquo and, generally, are appalled by the frightening images brought to mind by these concepts.A wide-ranging debate over their validity, a concern about the &dquofunctions&dquo of the mass media in modern society, and their &dquoeffects&dquo on the general public have been major subjects of mass communications research for the last two decades.1 Studies of po…
Organizational Restructuring and its Consequences
In this review, we examine the idea of organizational restructuring as a conceptual tool and how it has been used to alter societal definitions and interpretations of employment. Although use of the term restructuring is relatively recent, the broad issue of changing employment conditions with which it is concerned has a long history, going back to the industrial revolution. Our main focus is a consideration of the causes and consequences of rest…
Production Organizations in the Arts
DiMaggio and Hirsch describe the cycle from creation to consumption through which art is produced. Using an organizational model which could be applied to most culture-producing milieux, they focus on three levels of analysis: interpersonal, interorganizational, and total system
Doing sociology and culture
Rational Choice Models for Sociology - Pro and Con
Interpersonal communication and the diffusion of family planning in West Malaysia
Using data from a 1966–1967 probability sample of West Malaysian married women 15–44 years of age, this paper analyzes the characteristics of women who were active in diffusing information about family planning. The woman’s age and her parity, her educational attainment, her race, her present residence (urban-rural), and whether or not she wanted more children were significantly related to opinion leadership in bivariate tables. However, these re…
The changing popular song
(1972). The changing popular song: An historical overview. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 83-93
Katalog der Musikbibliothek Paul Hirsch Frankf rt am Main. Band I
Katalog der Musikbibliothek Paul Hirsch Frankfurt am Main. Band II
A Discrepancy in Beethoven
Journal Article A DISCREPANCY IN BEETHOVEN Get access PAUL HIRSCH PAUL HIRSCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume XIX, Issue 3, July 1938, Pages 265–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/XIX.3.265 Published: 01 July 1938
To the Editor, ‘Music & Letters’
A Mozart Problem
A MOZART PROBLEM Get access PAUL HIRSCH PAUL HIRSCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume XXV, Issue 4, October 1944, Pages 209–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/XXV.4.209 Published: 01 October 1944
Interpersonal communication and the diffusion of family planning in West Malaysia
Using data from a 1966–1967 probability sample of West Malaysian married women 15–44 years of age, this paper analyzes the characteristics of women who were active in diffusing information about family planning. The woman’s age and her parity, her educational attainment, her race, her present residence (urban-rural), and whether or not she wanted more children were significantly related to opinion leadership in bivariate tables. However, these re…
Sociological Approaches to the Pop Music Phenomenon
Social scientists have long theorized about &dquomass society&dquo and &dquomass culture&dquo and, generally, are appalled by the frightening images brought to mind by these concepts.A wide-ranging debate over their validity, a concern about the &dquofunctions&dquo of the mass media in modern society, and their &dquoeffects&dquo on the general public have been major subjects of mass communications research for the last two decades.1 Studies of po…
The changing popular song
(1972). The changing popular song: An historical overview. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 83-93
Processing Fads and Fashions
Organizations engaged in the production and mass distribution of "cultural" items are often confronted by highly uncertain environments at their input and output boundaries. This paper outlines the structure and operation of entrepreneurial organizations in the most speculative segments of three cultural industries: book publishing, phonograph records, and motion pictures. Commercial cultural products are conceived as nonmaterial goods, directed …
Protest Rock and Drugs
John P. Robinson, Robert Pilskaln, Paul Hirsch; Protest Rock and Drugs, Journal of Communication, Volume 26, Issue 4, 1 December 1976, Pages 125–136, https
Popular Culture and High Culture
Production Organizations in the Arts
DiMaggio and Hirsch describe the cycle from creation to consumption through which art is produced. Using an organizational model which could be applied to most culture-producing milieux, they focus on three levels of analysis: interpersonal, interorganizational, and total system
Social Science Approaches to Popular Culture
A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations
Compliance as a Comparative Base 3 II. An Analytical Classification: Coercive and Utilitarian Organizations 23 III. An Analytical Classification: Normative and Dual Organizations 40 IV. Compliance, Goals, and Effectiveness 71 V. Compliance and Organizational Elites 89 VI. Compliance and Cultural Integration: Consensus, Communication, and Socialization 127 VII. Compliance and Organizational Environment: Recruitment, Scope, and Pervasiveness 151 VI…
The “Scary World” of the Nonviewer and Other Anomalies
This article critically examines the statistical evidence presented by Gerbner et al. to support their assertion that television-viewing “cultivates” distorted perceptions of the “real world.” In Part I, I point out discrepancies in the items, samples, and coding categories employed, and show that when controls are applied simultaneously (rather than singly) there is no linear relationship between amount of viewing and the provision of “televisio…
On Hughes's Contribution
Journal Article On Hughes's Contribution: The Limits of Advocacy Research Get access PAUL M. HIRSCH PAUL M. HIRSCH University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 3, FALL 1980, Pages 411–413, https://doi.org/10.1086/268609 Published: 01 January 1980
Television as a cultural forum
1983). Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 8, The Economic and Political Structure of American Television, pp. 45-55
On the Edge of the Organization
U.S. Cultural Productions
Journal Article U.S. Cultural Productions: The Impact of Ownership Get access Paul M. Hirsch Paul M. Hirsch 1Paul M. Hirsch is Professor of Sociology and Business Policy, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Funds for the research on which this article is based were generously provided by grants from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation and Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organizations. The author is grateful to Steven Str…
From Ambushes to Golden Parachutes
Ownership contests for control of large American corporations have become increasingly problematic and public with the advent of the "hostile takeover." This article examines the diffusion of this once "deviant" innovation. Its focus is on the relationship between changing business practices and American business culture; more specifically, on how the processes of the normative framing of hostile takeovers facilitated their diffusion and legitima…
Dirty hands? versus ?clean models
Rational Choice Models for Sociology - Pro and Con
Globalization of Mass Media Ownership
During the last decade, the United States lost its dominance as the owner and producer of mass communication, both domestically and around the world. The globalization of ownership of mass media content, production, and technology has major implications for audience definitions and theories about who controls these media, for what purposes, and with what effects. The articles in this special issue are the first collection to address the issues ra…
Tales from the Field
Ending the Family Quarrel
Over the past couple of decades, research in organizational sociology has shifted away from the contextual richness of action perspectives toward more structuralist paradigms. DiMaggio and Powell's distinction between what they label the "old" and "new" institutionalisms highlights this general trend. The present authors offer a critical review of this generational paradigm debate among institutional theorists and challenge DiMaggio and Powell's …
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works)