Edward Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5589831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Lawyers and their discontents
The Fifties--One More Time: Academics and Their Administrators
Structural Barriers and Normative Constraints in Medical School and Premed: Comment on Cole and Fiorentine
Festivals and the French Revolution
Teaching Complex Organizations: A Survey Essay
In this essay I briefly review six books that could be used as texts in teaching complex organizations. I began my quest for appropriate textbooks to review by examining a draft of Thomas Drabek's article, the Sociology of Complex Organizations, which also appears in this issue of Teaching Sociology. He identified six texts as excellent, but two of them were considerably dated (1979, 1981) and more recent editions were not available. In addition
The Rationality of Symbolic Actors
A History of Sociological Theory and a Theory of Sociological History
The Social Construction of Historical Events Through Public Dramas
Medieval Corpus Christi pageants, community and royal public dramas, and French revolutionary demonstrations are examined in order to uncover the elements of their social construction. The elements are seen to be focus, engrossment, costuming, performer selection, scripting, performance effects and moods, and the presentation of symbols. These theatrical elements form a technology that is employed by elites when they collectively seek to symboliz…
Waiting at Mayo
Embarrassment in public life
Fiddles and Crime: The Work that Deviants Do
The End of a Golden Age: Higher Education in a Steady State
The Theory of Power and Organization
The Hidden Economy
Sport Leagues: A Model for a Theory of Organizational Stratification
Workers in a Labyrinth: Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy
Laughter and Symbolic Interaction
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Case Analysis in Education
Mayhew and Levinger's Use of Random Models
Summary of the Report on the Case of Dr. Nancy Glandon and the University of Redlands
Changes in University Organization, 1964-1971
Universities and the Shape of Sociological Ideas
On Lieberson's Study of Military-Industrial Linkages: A Fan Letter with Implications
The Forum Theory of Organizational Democracy: Structural Guarantees as Time-Related Variables
Making: Comparative Analyses. San Francisco: Chandler. Warren, Roland L. 1956 Toward a reformulation of community theory. Human Organization 15 (Summer) :S-11. 1967 interorganizational field as a focus for investigation. Administrative Science Quarterly 12 (December) :396-419. Williams, Oliver P. and Charles R. Adrian. 1959 insulation of local politics under the nonpartisan ballot. American Science Review 43 (December) :1052-1063. Wilson, James Q…
Embarrassment and the Analysis of Role Requirements
Since embarrassment incapacitates persons for continued role performance, it can provide an indicator of basic requirements of role performance. Study of one thousand instances of recalled embarrassment revealed three major requirements: identity, poise, and confidence in established identity and poise. The analysis of identity reveals the significance of adjunct roles and reserve and relict identities. Disturbances of poise revolve about the han…
The Definition of Organizational Goals
The central concept in the study of organizations is that of the organizational goal. One might even claim that the notion of a goal is coincidental with that of an organization. Parsons1 sees goal attainment as an aspect of all systems: all systems, in order to survive, must attain whatever goals they set out for themselves. However a special kind of a system; namely the organization, is singled out as being that in which the problem of goal att…
Universities as Organizations: A Research Approach
Work and Society
University Goals and Academic Power
Some Functional Consequences of Primary Controls in Formal Work Organizations
T HE present paper concerns the proposition that primary controls may be functional within instituted social organizations. For this purpose, evidence will be submitted which suggests that such primary controls may make their appearance precisely when formal or institutional controls prove inadequate. As such, these primary controls enable the organization to accomplish its formal purpose. The study uses two sources of data-one, a manufacturing c…
The Social Construction of Historical Events Through Public Dramas
Medieval Corpus Christi pageants, community and royal public dramas, and French revolutionary demonstrations are examined in order to uncover the elements of their social construction. The elements are seen to be focus, engrossment, costuming, performer selection, scripting, performance effects and moods, and the presentation of symbols. These theatrical elements form a technology that is employed by elites when they collectively seek to symboliz…
Bureaucracy in Higher Education
Symbiosis and Consensus as Integrative Factors in Small Groups
will first attempt to resolve the conflict by exemption, i.e., by assigning one definition a higher priority than that accorded to others. (This can be done either by exempting a particular type of event or a particular person from a more general definition.) Where this is not possible, he will attempt to achieve a compromise solution by which he can act in partial conformity to both (or all) definitions of the situation. When even this is not po…
Embarrassment in public life
The Theory of Power and Organization
Social Integration and the Control of Competition
Blau's theory of social integration emphasizes the individual's ability to make himself approachable and thereby become integrated into the group. However, since it is to the group's interest to have integrated members, the theory must go further to describe how a group makes certain that its members will be and remain approachable to one another. A group solves these problems through control of admission and through minimal norms. A major norm, …
The Occupational Variable as a Research Category
Primary Functions of the Small Group
The degree of small-group cohesion in an Air Force unit was related to the attitudes of members to certain aspects of Air Force life. Highly cohesive groups tend to be satisfied with the Air Force and with its group goals, but dissatisfied with the air site and their jobs. Consensus appear to operate as a social bond for the areas of satisfaction and symbiosis for the areas of dissatisfaction, the two processes thus satisfying primary needs in th…
Waiting at Mayo
Laughter and Symbolic Interaction
Universities and the Shape of Sociological Ideas
Work and Authority in Industry
The Rationality of Symbolic Actors
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Industry and Social Life
Centers of Identity in the Modern City
Journal Article Centers of Identity in the Modern City Get access Edward Gross, Ph.D. Edward Gross, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 10, Issue 3, July 1965, Pages 22–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/10.3.22 Published: 01 July 1965
Some Functional Consequences of Primary Controls in Formal Work Organizations
T HE present paper concerns the proposition that primary controls may be functional within instituted social organizations. For this purpose, evidence will be submitted which suggests that such primary controls may make their appearance precisely when formal or institutional controls prove inadequate. As such, these primary controls enable the organization to accomplish its formal purpose. The study uses two sources of data-one, a manufacturing c…
The Role of Density as a Factor in Metropolitan Growth in the United States of America
The rôle of density as a factor in metropolitan growth in the United States of America
U.S. Census data are used to show that, as the density of a metropolis increases there is a concomitant increase in the movement of population to the suburbs. This relationship is closest for small metropolitan areas. As size of the area increases, the closeness of the relationship decreases until it reverses—the largest areas actually show a slight decline in metropolitanization when density goes up. It is concluded that metropolitan expansion h…
The Community Factor In Modern Technology
Primary Functions of the Small Group
The degree of small-group cohesion in an Air Force unit was related to the attitudes of members to certain aspects of Air Force life. Highly cohesive groups tend to be satisfied with the Air Force and with its group goals, but dissatisfied with the air site and their jobs. Consensus appear to operate as a social bond for the areas of satisfaction and symbiosis for the areas of dissatisfaction, the two processes thus satisfying primary needs in th…
The Comparison of Rates of Change: A Caution
Work and Authority in Industry
Symbiosis and Consensus as Integrative Factors in Small Groups
will first attempt to resolve the conflict by exemption, i.e., by assigning one definition a higher priority than that accorded to others. (This can be done either by exempting a particular type of event or a particular person from a more general definition.) Where this is not possible, he will attempt to achieve a compromise solution by which he can act in partial conformity to both (or all) definitions of the situation. When even this is not po…
The Occupational Variable as a Research Category
Work and Society
Work and Society
Book Note and Review: Human Relations: Modern Organization Theory: A Symposium of the Foundation for Research on Human Behavior
Modern Organization Theory: A Symposium of the Foundation for Research on Human Behavior
Ten Thousand Careers. Robert L. Thorndike , Elizabeth Hagen
American Science Manpower: Employment and Other Characteristics
The Israeli Worker: Achievements, Attitudes, and Aspirations
Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing Areas. Wilbert E. Moore , Arnold S. Feldman
A Functional Approach to Leisure Analysis
A Functional Approach to Leisure Analysis
A Functional Approach to Leisure Analysis Get access Edward Gross Edward Gross University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 9, Issue 1, Summer 1961, Pages 2–8, https://doi.org/10.2307/799417 Published: 07 August 2014
Organization of Work: A Comparative Analysis of Production Among Non-Industrial Peoples. Stanley H. Udy, Jr
Complex Organizations: A Sociological Reader
Organizational Systems and Engineering Groups: A Comparative Study of Two Technical Groups in Industry
Social Integration and the Control of Competition
Blau's theory of social integration emphasizes the individual's ability to make himself approachable and thereby become integrated into the group. However, since it is to the group's interest to have integrated members, the theory must go further to describe how a group makes certain that its members will be and remain approachable to one another. A group solves these problems through control of admission and through minimal norms. A major norm, …
Cultural Values in Management-Worker Relations: Japan: Gimu in Transition. Arthur M. Whitehill, Jr. , Shin-Ichi Takezawa
Work and Leisure.Nels Anderson
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