Metaphysical Pathos and the Theory of Bureaucracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3494513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alvin W Gouldner (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 496-507 |
| Publication date | 1955-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1951818 |
| OpenAlex | W2046252459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 89 |
| References cited | 9 |
The conduct of a polemic focusses attention on the differences between two points of view to the neglect of their continuity and convergences. No modern polemic better exemplifies this than the controversy between the proponents of capitalism and of socialism. Each tends to define itself as the antithesis of the other; even the uncommitted bystander, rare though he be, is likely to think of the two as if they were utterly alien systems.There have always been some, however, who have taken exception to this sharp contrast between socialism and capitalism and who have insisted that there are significant similarities between the two. One of these, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim, maintained that socialism like capitalism involved an overbearing preoccupation with economic interests. In both socialist and capitalist societies, Durkheim argued, economic concerns were at the center of attention. In Durkheim's view, neither capitalism nor socialism deemed it necessary to bridle materialistic ends; neither society subordinated pecuniary interests to some higher, governing, moral norms. Therefore, "from Durkheim's point of view," writes Talcott Parsons, "socialism and laissez-faire individualism are of the same piece
Bureaucracy · Capitalism · Communism · Economics · Epistemology · Individualism · Materialism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Left Out
Max Weber’s Bequest for European Public Administration
Mass Communication Research
Peopling Organizations
The Impact and Interpretation of Weber’s Bureaucratic Ideal Type in Organisation Theory and Public Administration
G ouldner, A lvin W . (1920–1980)
Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century
‘Amcu by day, workers’ committee by night’
Dissolving the Iron Cages? Tocqueville, Michels, Bureaucracy and the Perpetuation of Elite Power
Gender and professionalism
Who's Afraid of Enterprise
Nice Work? Rethinking Managerial Control in an Era of Knowledge Work
The Bureaucratization of Muslim Marriage in Indonesia
Is a Critical Sociology Possible
How Institutions Form
Engineering
Organization theory and the organization of health care
Economic Transition and Accounting System Reform in Vietnam
Organization theory and the organization of health care
Gouldner's Tragic Vision
Gouldner's Tragic Vision
Identifying cohesive subgroups
The educated minotaur
Truth Claims and Value-Freedom in the Treatment of Legitimacy
Contending Paradigms in Public Administration
Rationality and Rhetoric in the Corporate World
Imagine there are no leaders
Balancing exploration and exploitation in public management
Understanding Cooperatives
The transformation of environmental activism
The Imperative of Reason and Rationality
Natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty in America
Labour in the time of platinum
Verstehen and Dialecdtic
Voluntary Agencies and the Contract Culture
The Development of Large-Scale Economic Organizations in Modern America
Beyond Happy Families
Representative bureaucracy
The dismal science of organization reconsidered
The Emergence of the Egalitarian Organization
Further Thoughts on Experiments in Industrial Democracy and Self-Management
Neoclassical Economic Theory, Executive Control, and Organizational Outcomes
Working under intensive surveillance
The Emerging Organizational Synthesis In Modern American History
Beyond Ad-Hocracy
Rediscovering the Theological in Sociology
The Forum Theory of Organizational Democracy
Bureaucracy and democracy. A critical reading of Alvin W. Gouldner's book Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
Structure and choice in the sociology of culture
A Case for Critical Eclecticism
Governmentality Matters
Inhabited Institutions
Approaching adulthood
Japan's Response to the West
The New Labor Activism, a New Labor Sociology
Max Weber
Reconceptualizing Crisis
La legitimidad en las organizaciones
La legitimidad en las organizaciones
Navigating a Rough Terrain of Public Management
The Value of Local Autonomy
Contradictory functional requirements and social systems
The New South Wales Labor Party's 1927 Rules
A Social Choice Perspective on Expertise and Authority in Bureaucracy
Roberto Michels and the Study of Political Parties
Expertness and the Span of Control
Value Implications of the Functional Theory of Deviance
Flow of Communications, Expert Qualifications and Organizational Authority Structures
The Structure of Charismatic Mobilization
Some Reflections on Student Movements of the 1960s and Early 1970s
Democratic Ideals and Sobering Realities
Beyond cheap labour
Democracy, Organization, Michels
Alvin W. Gouldner and industrial sociology at Columbia University
Are we all overcoming the same thing
Reception of Political Parties by Robert Michels in Poland in an international context
Critical Dimensions in Human Ecology
Concerted Ignorance
Engaging with Promotional Culture
Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative
Moody's Account of Social Movement Unionism
Formal Polity and Power Distribution in American Protestant Denominations
Conditions Facilitating Participatory-Democratic Organizations
The Iron Law of What Again? Conceptualizing Oligarchy Across Organizational Forms
Governmental Bureaucratization
Class signature in schools
The theory behind Theory and Society
The written and the repressed in Gouldner's industrial sociology
| Unique citing works | 89 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,27 |
| Citation span | 1956 - 2025 (70) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 89 |