From Organization to Society

Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Bibliographic Data

ID2204683
AuthorsSigmund Diamond (corresponding author)
Year1958
Volume63
Issue5
Pages457-475
Publication date1958-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/222297
OpenAlexW2041357042
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Virginia in the early seventeenth century may be taken as an example of a social system established in accordance with the model of a commercial organization, in which the behavior of the members was expected to be entirely determinded by their positions within the organization. The concessions that were of fered to iduce them to accept positions within the organization so multiplied the number of statuses they held as to alter decisively their behavior and to transform Virginia from a formal organization into a society. The analysis of the early history of Virginia is an illustration of the way in which historical knowledge may ve used to suggest problems of interest to sociological theory

Archaeology · Economics · Formal organization · Management · Organizational theory · Political science · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · West virginia · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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