Diane Vaughan
Biographic Data
| ID | 155804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Vaughan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaughan |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4616-7995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 541 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Fugitive Philosophy: Derrida and Lyotard at the Limits of the Law
The central inquiry of this article concerns the ethical orientation within post-structuralism, specifically questioning its potential affinity with deontology. While the "philosophers of difference" offer divergent perspectives on the doctrine of judgment, Jacques Derrida folds it within Deconstruction as a nomo-aporetic transcendental horizon. To understand this operation and its potential ethical significance, I suggest Jean-François Lyotard o…
Arjen Kleinherenbrink (2019) Against Continuity: Gilles Deleuze's Speculative Realism
Analogy, Cases, and Comparative Social Organization
Criminología y la sociología de las organizaciones. Analogía, organización social comparativa y teoría general
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Surveys
This article focuses on surveys and their potential as a research methodology in the field of analytical sociology. It presents arguments to show how analytical sociologists can take advantage of the widespread use of surveys in sociology. First, surveys provide social facts, or empirical regularities that analytical sociology aims to explain. Second, surveys can be and have been used to empirically study social mechanisms. Third, survey data are…
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
Bourdieu and organizations: The Empirical Challenge
The Social Shaping of Commission Reports
Nasa Revisited: Theory, Analogy, and Public Sociology
This ethnographic account of the rituals of risk and error after NASA's Columbia accident reveals the mechanisms by which sociological theory traveled across the disciplinary boundary to public and policy domains. The analysis shows that analogy was the instigator of it all, enabled by the social mechanisms of professional legitimacy, conversation, technologies, time, networks, and social support. It demonstrates the work sociologists do when the…
On the relevance of ethnography for the production of public sociology and policy
On the Value of Ethnography: Sociology and Public Policy
Reproduced below is a conversation and question/answer session about the relationship of ethnography to public policy. The conversation took place in Philadelphia on November 7, 2003. Comments by Jean-Michel Chapoulie follow the dialogue (p. 277)
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident
Building explanations from data is an important but usually invisible process behind all published research. Here I reconstruct my theorizing for an historical ethnography of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) decisions that produced that accident. I show how analogical theorizing, a method that compares similar events or activities across different social settings, leads to mo…
The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life
An Ethnographic Excursion
The Rôle of the Organization in the Production of Techno-Scientific Knowledge
When scientific and technical work goes on within a formal organization, what effect, if any, does the organizational setting have on the production of facts and artefacts? This question has not yet been thoroughly explored in science and technology studies. Organizations are meso-level structures: located between the macro-level contingencies and the micro-level interactions that are known to affect the interpretive work of scientific and techni…
The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster
In keeping with traditional sociological concerns about order and disorder, this essay addresses the dark side of organizations. To build a theoretical basis for the dark side as an integrated field of study, I review four literatures in order to make core ideas of each available to specialists in the others. Using a Simmelian-based case comparison method of analogical theorizing, I first consider sociological constructs that identify both the ge…
The "Challenger" Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa
Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations
The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of organizational misconduct that decontextualizes decisionmaking, emphasizing consequences while ignoring how preferences are formed. I raise three challenges to the rational choice/deterrence model of social control: (1) research and theory on decisio…
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa
Organizational Communication Imperatives: Lessons of the Space Program
Regulating Risk: Implications of the Challenger Accident
This analysis describes how the NASA organization contributed to the loss of the Challenger on January 28, 1986. The competitive environment, NASA organization characteristics (its structure, processes, and transactions), and the regulatory environment all influenced the decision to proceed with the launch. To be effective, strategies to control, change, or eliminate undesireable behavior should address the cause of that behavior. Understanding h…
Intimate Work: Teaching Sociologists to Write
When it comes to writing, the sociological imagination generally fails. In response to this deficiency, Kai Erikson introduced Sociologist's Craft: A Workshop on the Organization and Presentation of Sociological Materials in the graduate program at Yale University in 1978. Now in its tenth year, this hopeful undertaking was based upon the premise that writing skills could be learned. Initially structured only by an assigned time and place, the cl…
Uncoupling: How Relationships Come Apart
The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster
In keeping with traditional sociological concerns about order and disorder, this essay addresses the dark side of organizations. To build a theoretical basis for the dark side as an integrated field of study, I review four literatures in order to make core ideas of each available to specialists in the others. Using a Simmelian-based case comparison method of analogical theorizing, I first consider sociological constructs that identify both the ge…
Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident
Building explanations from data is an important but usually invisible process behind all published research. Here I reconstruct my theorizing for an historical ethnography of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) decisions that produced that accident. I show how analogical theorizing, a method that compares similar events or activities across different social settings, leads to mo…
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations
The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of organizational misconduct that decontextualizes decisionmaking, emphasizing consequences while ignoring how preferences are formed. I raise three challenges to the rational choice/deterrence model of social control: (1) research and theory on decisio…
Nasa Revisited: Theory, Analogy, and Public Sociology
This ethnographic account of the rituals of risk and error after NASA's Columbia accident reveals the mechanisms by which sociological theory traveled across the disciplinary boundary to public and policy domains. The analysis shows that analogy was the instigator of it all, enabled by the social mechanisms of professional legitimacy, conversation, technologies, time, networks, and social support. It demonstrates the work sociologists do when the…
The Rôle of the Organization in the Production of Techno-Scientific Knowledge
When scientific and technical work goes on within a formal organization, what effect, if any, does the organizational setting have on the production of facts and artefacts? This question has not yet been thoroughly explored in science and technology studies. Organizations are meso-level structures: located between the macro-level contingencies and the micro-level interactions that are known to affect the interpretive work of scientific and techni…
Bourdieu and organizations: The Empirical Challenge
On the relevance of ethnography for the production of public sociology and policy
On the Value of Ethnography: Sociology and Public Policy
Reproduced below is a conversation and question/answer session about the relationship of ethnography to public policy. The conversation took place in Philadelphia on November 7, 2003. Comments by Jean-Michel Chapoulie follow the dialogue (p. 277)
Regulating Risk: Implications of the Challenger Accident
This analysis describes how the NASA organization contributed to the loss of the Challenger on January 28, 1986. The competitive environment, NASA organization characteristics (its structure, processes, and transactions), and the regulatory environment all influenced the decision to proceed with the launch. To be effective, strategies to control, change, or eliminate undesireable behavior should address the cause of that behavior. Understanding h…
The Social Shaping of Commission Reports
Uncoupling: The process of moving from one lifestyle to another
Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior
The transaction systems of complex organizations are a critical but understudied element of inter-organizational relations. Transactions between complex organizations are characterized by formalization, intricate and highly specialized processing and recording methods, reliance on trust, and general, rather than specific, monitoring procedures. These characteristics may each facilitate unlawful behavior, or they may combine in ways which systemat…
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life
An Ethnographic Excursion
Intimate Work: Teaching Sociologists to Write
When it comes to writing, the sociological imagination generally fails. In response to this deficiency, Kai Erikson introduced Sociologist's Craft: A Workshop on the Organization and Presentation of Sociological Materials in the graduate program at Yale University in 1978. Now in its tenth year, this hopeful undertaking was based upon the premise that writing skills could be learned. Initially structured only by an assigned time and place, the cl…
Uncoupling: The process of moving from one lifestyle to another
Transaction Systems and Unlawful Organizational Behavior
The transaction systems of complex organizations are a critical but understudied element of inter-organizational relations. Transactions between complex organizations are characterized by formalization, intricate and highly specialized processing and recording methods, reliance on trust, and general, rather than specific, monitoring procedures. These characteristics may each facilitate unlawful behavior, or they may combine in ways which systemat…
Accounting for Corporate Crime
Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior: Social Structure and Corporate Misconduct
Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace (Book)
Uncoupling: How Relationships Come Apart
Intimate Work: Teaching Sociologists to Write
When it comes to writing, the sociological imagination generally fails. In response to this deficiency, Kai Erikson introduced Sociologist's Craft: A Workshop on the Organization and Presentation of Sociological Materials in the graduate program at Yale University in 1978. Now in its tenth year, this hopeful undertaking was based upon the premise that writing skills could be learned. Initially structured only by an assigned time and place, the cl…
Regulating Risk: Implications of the Challenger Accident
This analysis describes how the NASA organization contributed to the loss of the Challenger on January 28, 1986. The competitive environment, NASA organization characteristics (its structure, processes, and transactions), and the regulatory environment all influenced the decision to proceed with the launch. To be effective, strategies to control, change, or eliminate undesireable behavior should address the cause of that behavior. Understanding h…
Organizational Communication Imperatives: Lessons of the Space Program
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa
The "Challenger" Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa
Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations
The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of organizational misconduct that decontextualizes decisionmaking, emphasizing consequences while ignoring how preferences are formed. I raise three challenges to the rational choice/deterrence model of social control: (1) research and theory on decisio…
The Rôle of the Organization in the Production of Techno-Scientific Knowledge
When scientific and technical work goes on within a formal organization, what effect, if any, does the organizational setting have on the production of facts and artefacts? This question has not yet been thoroughly explored in science and technology studies. Organizations are meso-level structures: located between the macro-level contingencies and the micro-level interactions that are known to affect the interpretive work of scientific and techni…
The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster
In keeping with traditional sociological concerns about order and disorder, this essay addresses the dark side of organizations. To build a theoretical basis for the dark side as an integrated field of study, I review four literatures in order to make core ideas of each available to specialists in the others. Using a Simmelian-based case comparison method of analogical theorizing, I first consider sociological constructs that identify both the ge…
The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life
An Ethnographic Excursion
On the Value of Ethnography: Sociology and Public Policy
Reproduced below is a conversation and question/answer session about the relationship of ethnography to public policy. The conversation took place in Philadelphia on November 7, 2003. Comments by Jean-Michel Chapoulie follow the dialogue (p. 277)
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident
Building explanations from data is an important but usually invisible process behind all published research. Here I reconstruct my theorizing for an historical ethnography of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) decisions that produced that accident. I show how analogical theorizing, a method that compares similar events or activities across different social settings, leads to mo…
On the relevance of ethnography for the production of public sociology and policy
The Social Shaping of Commission Reports
Nasa Revisited: Theory, Analogy, and Public Sociology
This ethnographic account of the rituals of risk and error after NASA's Columbia accident reveals the mechanisms by which sociological theory traveled across the disciplinary boundary to public and policy domains. The analysis shows that analogy was the instigator of it all, enabled by the social mechanisms of professional legitimacy, conversation, technologies, time, networks, and social support. It demonstrates the work sociologists do when the…
Bourdieu and organizations: The Empirical Challenge
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Business (6 works)