Society's Frontiers for Organizing Activities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6363666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James D Thompson (0000-0002-3092-7523, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 327-327 |
| Publication date | 1973-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/975112 |
| OpenAlex | W2312809373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
people who have tried to tell me that it is inevitable. Many serious social commentators insist that the imperatives of modern technology, largescale organization, and long-term planning under super-industrial capitalism move America toward some kind of collectivization. Those who insist on its inevitability say that in all honesty there has been no serious alternative presented by anyone, unless one considers the flower power rhetoric of Charles Reich's The Greening of America an alternative. Or unless one accepts the sudden transformation of man's heart which Lewis Mumford writes about in the last page and last paragraph of his The Pentagon of Power. Because there are no genuine alternatives, they tell me, the Organized Society is not a two-to-one probability but a 99-to-1 certainty. I am a different kind of planner. I have the feeling that if there were a clearly articulated alternative, that by itself would tend to make the Organized Society inevitable. The very absence of alternatives and the vacuity of most alternatives now clearly articulated is probably-in this strange and exotic world in which we live-some room for
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 1989 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |