Robert R Faulkner
Biographic Data
| ID | 95770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert R Faulkner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert R |
| FAMILY NAME | Faulkner |
| SIGNATURE | FAULKNER R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 584 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Qualitative Sociology
Music on Demand
In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals how work is allocated among composers and the divis…
The multiplexity of political conspiracy
Using historical data from the United State's Watergate criminal conspiracy case, we construct five sociomatrices representing the multiplex social relations of political conspiracy. Sociomatrices representing (1) the social relations of the illegal relations among the conspirators, (2) fractious relations between the conspirators during the working period of the conspiracy, (3) fractious relations between the conspirators during the crisis stage…
"Do You Know…?"
Social Capital, Double Embeddedness, and Mechanisms of Stability and Change
The authors coin the term double embeddedness to denote the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations-where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture. Structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness and their interactions are variable, dynamic, and complex. The authors develop a typology based on these two forms of embeddedness, illustrating four ideal-types with examples from the Uni…
Studying Something You Are Part Of
Le statut d'observateur participant dans un monde de l'art que l'on souhaite étudier constitue à la fois une aide et une limite pour le chercheur. Parce qu'il comprend ce dont parlent les observés quand ils évoquent leur travail, il peut découvrir des choses qu'un étranger mettrait des mois à apprendre. Dans notre travail de terrain sur les musiciens du jazz aux États-Unis, nous avons découvert des situations problématiques propres aux chercheurs…
The Jazz Repertoire
Le répertoire Jazz H.S. Becker et R.R. Faulkner, à partir de leur propre expérience de musiciens de jazz et de leur travail de terrain, étudient les processus de construction des répertoires du jazz. Ils prennent les morceaux, les musiciens, les situations de jeu, le répertoire habituel, comme autant d’unités d’analyse leur permettant de rendre explicites les choix et les contraintes, ainsi que les processus de négociation à l’œuvre dans cette co…
Hazards of the Market
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Social networks and loss of capital
The New Economic Sociology
Diffusion of Fraud
Criminologists have studied the spread of fraudulent practices and techniques among perpetrators. This article attempts to contribute to the field by looking at the other side of diffusion, examining the spread of fraud among investors in a case of “intermediate fraud.” Intermediate fraud occurs when fraudulent acts are committed in or by a legitimate business. Using comprehensive archival, interview, and survey data, we analyze a business that e…
Crime by Committee
We show how cartels rely on the adaptive social structure of committee meetings to ameliorate the competitive difficulties of markets. We distill the structure of the cartel committee and test hypotheses relating market structure to committee structure and ultimately to the efficacy of cartel price‐fixing. Cartel continuity and the corporate authority of the cartel are strong predictors of cartel effectiveness. Cartel continuity is responsive to …
Will This Record Work for Us
Crops
Hazards of the Market
We propose a theory of the market as an intertemporal process that integrates multiple theoretical perspectives. Using event-history methods, we analyze the dissolution of interorganizational market ties between advertising agencies and their clients as a function of three forces-competition, power, and institutional forces. The informal rules of institutionalized in the emergence phase of the advertising services market include exclusivity (sole…
Karl Polanyi meets the Masters of the Universe
Careers and Creativity
A look at the production and distribution of art, drawing on fields as disparate as European portraiture and American rock and roll. The development and maintenance of worlds, the escapist element of art and its manipulations, the origins of new styles, are all laid bare in a book that offers a vision of expression and artistic production embedded in a world of complex social networks
The Production of Culture
Introduction The Media Culture Paradigm Social Stratification and the Media Audiences in Media-Saturated Societies The Production of Culture in National Culture Industries Approaches to the Analysis of Meaning in Media Culture Class Cultures in the City Culture Organizations and Urban Arts Cultures Media Culture, Urban Arts Cultures and Government Policy Conclusion Towards Global Culture
The Social Organization of Conspiracy
We analyze the social organization of three well-known price-fixing conspiracies in the heavy electrical equipment industry. Although aspects of collusion have been studied by industrial organization economists and organizational criminologists, the organization of conspiracies has remained virtually unexplored. Using archival data, we reconstruct the actual communication networks involved in conspiracies in switchgear transformers, and turbines.…
Role as Resource in the Hollywood Film Industry
The theoretical concept of role as resource is introduced and illustrated. The concept combines critical elements of the structural, interactionist, and network approaches to role. A role is a resource in two senses: it is a means to claim, barbain for, and gain membership and acceptance in a social community, and it grants access to social, cultura, and material capital that incumbents and claimants exploit in order to pursue their interests. Th…
Music Matters
Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts
Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit high culture and for-profit popular culture into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of…
And the Winner Is
Short-Term Projects and Emergent Careers
The Hollywood film industry is considered as a system of recurrent ties among the various major participants who usually work under short-term contracts for single films. This form of project-based organization in seen as a response to uncertainty and risk in the film industry. The Paper examines the ways in which independent contractors-producers, directors, cinematographers, and actors-organize and operate to reduce uncertainty and risk and to …
The Production of Culture in the Music Industry
The Social Organization of Conspiracy
We analyze the social organization of three well-known price-fixing conspiracies in the heavy electrical equipment industry. Although aspects of collusion have been studied by industrial organization economists and organizational criminologists, the organization of conspiracies has remained virtually unexplored. Using archival data, we reconstruct the actual communication networks involved in conspiracies in switchgear transformers, and turbines.…
Short-Term Projects and Emergent Careers
The Hollywood film industry is considered as a system of recurrent ties among the various major participants who usually work under short-term contracts for single films. This form of project-based organization in seen as a response to uncertainty and risk in the film industry. The Paper examines the ways in which independent contractors-producers, directors, cinematographers, and actors-organize and operate to reduce uncertainty and risk and to …
Role as Resource in the Hollywood Film Industry
The theoretical concept of role as resource is introduced and illustrated. The concept combines critical elements of the structural, interactionist, and network approaches to role. A role is a resource in two senses: it is a means to claim, barbain for, and gain membership and acceptance in a social community, and it grants access to social, cultura, and material capital that incumbents and claimants exploit in order to pursue their interests. Th…
Hazards of the Market
We propose a theory of the market as an intertemporal process that integrates multiple theoretical perspectives. Using event-history methods, we analyze the dissolution of interorganizational market ties between advertising agencies and their clients as a function of three forces-competition, power, and institutional forces. The informal rules of institutionalized in the emergence phase of the advertising services market include exclusivity (sole…
Qualitative Sociology
Will This Record Work for Us
Making Violence by Doing Work
Orchestra Interaction
Combining theoretical and empirical materials, this paper outlines why definitions of the situation are an important vehicle for analyzing the conditions under which communications are viewed as authoritative by subordinates in complex work organizations. It investigates an exemplary process of collective action—making orchestra music—as a means of understanding the development as well as the demise of consensually validated expertise. Evaluation…
Diffusion of Fraud
Criminologists have studied the spread of fraudulent practices and techniques among perpetrators. This article attempts to contribute to the field by looking at the other side of diffusion, examining the spread of fraud among investors in a case of “intermediate fraud.” Intermediate fraud occurs when fraudulent acts are committed in or by a legitimate business. Using comprehensive archival, interview, and survey data, we analyze a business that e…
Career Concerns and Mobility Motivations of Orchestra Musicians
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical stance towards careers and professional socialization as subjective experience. Focusing on the problematic features of mobility, entrapment, and organizational commitment in the orchestra world, it shows how the analysis of career concerns in the “minor leagues” of organizational sets can reveal the meaning of status passage, definitions of time, and experiential turning points. Some adaptations to f…
Social Capital, Double Embeddedness, and Mechanisms of Stability and Change
The authors coin the term double embeddedness to denote the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations-where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture. Structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness and their interactions are variable, dynamic, and complex. The authors develop a typology based on these two forms of embeddedness, illustrating four ideal-types with examples from the Uni…
Studying Something You Are Part Of
Le statut d'observateur participant dans un monde de l'art que l'on souhaite étudier constitue à la fois une aide et une limite pour le chercheur. Parce qu'il comprend ce dont parlent les observés quand ils évoquent leur travail, il peut découvrir des choses qu'un étranger mettrait des mois à apprendre. Dans notre travail de terrain sur les musiciens du jazz aux États-Unis, nous avons découvert des situations problématiques propres aux chercheurs…
Thoughts on Five New Journals and Some Old Ones
Dilemmas in Commercial Work
The New Economic Sociology
Credits and Craft Production
This paper describes a system of work and patterns of productivity in the Hollywood film industry. Describing the social organization of the film industry entails two primary tasks. One is to describe the administration of work activities among technical specialists. The second is to investigate empirically the organization of those work activities. We argue that because of the particular needs of filmmaking, efficiency is achieved utilizing craf…
Swimming with sharks
Crime by Committee
We show how cartels rely on the adaptive social structure of committee meetings to ameliorate the competitive difficulties of markets. We distill the structure of the cartel committee and test hypotheses relating market structure to committee structure and ultimately to the efficacy of cartel price‐fixing. Cartel continuity and the corporate authority of the cartel are strong predictors of cartel effectiveness. Cartel continuity is responsive to …
Time and Television News Work
Combining theoretical and ethnographic material, this paper outlines why time is an important vehicle for analyzing the social organization of television news work and the social construction of television news. The paper investigates major events with problematic features—unscheduled “hard news”—as a means of understanding basic beliefs and organizational practices of news assemblers in a local television news station. Based on participant obser…
Uneasy Homecoming
The multiplexity of political conspiracy
Using historical data from the United State's Watergate criminal conspiracy case, we construct five sociomatrices representing the multiplex social relations of political conspiracy. Sociomatrices representing (1) the social relations of the illegal relations among the conspirators, (2) fractious relations between the conspirators during the working period of the conspiracy, (3) fractious relations between the conspirators during the crisis stage…
The Building of a Tentants Protest Organizaiton
Tenants' abilities to influence changes in their housing costs and conditions are constrained by their lack of political and economic power. Control over tenants' housing belongs to the property owners who suspend temporary use of their holdings in return for financial compensation. Tenants do not have the economic resources to own and hence, control their housing and are often politically weak because of tenant transiency and the absence of sust…
Fusion, Fussin' and a-Fightin
Hollywood Studio Musicians
The Hollywood TV Producer
Career Concerns and Mobility Motivations of Orchestra Musicians
This paper offers a theoretical and empirical stance towards careers and professional socialization as subjective experience. Focusing on the problematic features of mobility, entrapment, and organizational commitment in the orchestra world, it shows how the analysis of career concerns in the “minor leagues” of organizational sets can reveal the meaning of status passage, definitions of time, and experiential turning points. Some adaptations to f…
Orchestra Interaction
Combining theoretical and empirical materials, this paper outlines why definitions of the situation are an important vehicle for analyzing the conditions under which communications are viewed as authoritative by subordinates in complex work organizations. It investigates an exemplary process of collective action—making orchestra music—as a means of understanding the development as well as the demise of consensually validated expertise. Evaluation…
Coming of Age in Organizations
Combining material drawn from official records and detailed interviews, the paper outlines why age-grading and age-related features are an important vehicle for analyzing the contingencies facilitating or impeding interorganizational mobility. An examination of career patterns in professional hockey and symphony orchestras provides examples of the structural and personal mechanisms for sustaining the commitment and motivation of second-level or m…
Making Violence by Doing Work
Dilemmas in Commercial Work
Work Individuation among Women Machine Operators
To account for the pattern of processes through which interaction becomes an alien force between machine operatives, and to suggest the conditions under which conflict enters work relations, a close, firsthand study of "work individuation " is developed. The dimensions of concern are illustrated in the present paper. They are part of a case study of women machine operatives in a New England mill. Task structure, aural, spatial, and interactional …
Uneasy Homecoming
Swimming with sharks
Time and Television News Work
Combining theoretical and ethnographic material, this paper outlines why time is an important vehicle for analyzing the social organization of television news work and the social construction of television news. The paper investigates major events with problematic features—unscheduled “hard news”—as a means of understanding basic beliefs and organizational practices of news assemblers in a local television news station. Based on participant obser…
Fusion, Fussin' and a-Fightin
Qualitative Sociology
Thoughts on Five New Journals and Some Old Ones
Music on demand
Credits and Craft Production
This paper describes a system of work and patterns of productivity in the Hollywood film industry. Describing the social organization of the film industry entails two primary tasks. One is to describe the administration of work activities among technical specialists. The second is to investigate empirically the organization of those work activities. We argue that because of the particular needs of filmmaking, efficiency is achieved utilizing craf…
The Building of a Tentants Protest Organizaiton
Tenants' abilities to influence changes in their housing costs and conditions are constrained by their lack of political and economic power. Control over tenants' housing belongs to the property owners who suspend temporary use of their holdings in return for financial compensation. Tenants do not have the economic resources to own and hence, control their housing and are often politically weak because of tenant transiency and the absence of sust…
Designs on Demand
The Production of Culture in the Music Industry
And the Winner Is
Short-Term Projects and Emergent Careers
The Hollywood film industry is considered as a system of recurrent ties among the various major participants who usually work under short-term contracts for single films. This form of project-based organization in seen as a response to uncertainty and risk in the film industry. The Paper examines the ways in which independent contractors-producers, directors, cinematographers, and actors-organize and operate to reduce uncertainty and risk and to …
Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts
Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit high culture and for-profit popular culture into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of…
Music Matters
Role as Resource in the Hollywood Film Industry
The theoretical concept of role as resource is introduced and illustrated. The concept combines critical elements of the structural, interactionist, and network approaches to role. A role is a resource in two senses: it is a means to claim, barbain for, and gain membership and acceptance in a social community, and it grants access to social, cultura, and material capital that incumbents and claimants exploit in order to pursue their interests. Th…
The Production of Culture
Introduction The Media Culture Paradigm Social Stratification and the Media Audiences in Media-Saturated Societies The Production of Culture in National Culture Industries Approaches to the Analysis of Meaning in Media Culture Class Cultures in the City Culture Organizations and Urban Arts Cultures Media Culture, Urban Arts Cultures and Government Policy Conclusion Towards Global Culture
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