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Enforcing Order
Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and cru...
Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work
How is the world of professions and professional work changing? This book offers both an overview of current debates surrounding the nature of professional work, and the implications for change brought about by the managerialist agenda. The relationships professionals have with their organizations are variable, indeterminate and uncertain, and there is still debate over the ways in which these should be characterized and theorized. The contributors discuss these implications with topics including hybrid organizations and hybrid professionalism; the changing nature of professional and managerial work; profession and identity; and the emergence of HRM as a new managerial profession. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students seeking a comparative study on contemporary professional work. It will also be of use to a number of practitioners, namely human resource managers, looking for ways in which to approach the changing professional world.
Management Tools
No organization is immune from the influence of management tools. Such tools as norms, indicators, ranking, evaluation grids and management control systems have moved outside the managerial and consultancy realm within which they were first developed to reach public administrations and policy-makers, as well as a range of other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Taking management tools out of the practical and utilitarian contexts to which they are often consigned and approaching them from a social analytical perspective, this book gives primacy to these everyday objects that constitute the background of organizational life and remain too often unquestioned. Bringing together developing streams of research from anthropology, political science, social psychology, sociology, accounting, organisation theory and management, ve Chiapello and Patrick Gilbert offer an unprecedented theoretical synthesis that will help managers, scholars and policy-makers to unpack the functional and dysfunctional roles and effects of management tools within and across organizations.
The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management
"The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management surveys contemporary research in arts and cultural management, fulfilling a crucial need for a curated, high quality, first-line resource for scholars by providing a collection of empirical and theoretical chapters from a global perspective. With a focus on rigorous and in-depth contributions by both leading and emerging scholars from international and interdisciplinary backgrounds, the Handbook presents established and cutting-edge research in arts and cultural management and suggests directions for future work"--
Doing Social Problems
Arme, Kranke, Kriminelle, Behinderte oder hilfsbedürftige Familien stellen Kategorien der Betroffenheit von soziale Problemen dar, mit denen jeweils bestimmte Institutionen der Problemarbeit und der sozialen Kontrolle verbunden sind. Diese Einrichtungen der Bearbeitung sozialer Probleme können als Ergebnis einer erfolgreichen öffentlichen und politischen Institutionalisierung sozialer Probleme verstanden werden. In den Einrichtungen der Polizei und Justiz, der Sozialpolitik und der Sozialen Arbeit oder des Gesundheitssystems werden soziale Probleme in Fälle verwandelt, die dann in einer jeweils typischen Art und Weise behandelt werden. Mit dem neuen Konzept des „Doing Social Problems“ oder der „Problemarbeit“ werden diese Prozesse und institutionellen Kontexte der Bearbeitung sozialer Probleme auf der Ebene des Alltags von Institutionen der sozialen Kontrolle in einer vergleichenden Perspektive untersucht. Mit diesem Buch wird diese Perspektive, die in den USA bereits zu einem fruchtbaren Forschungsprogramm geworden ist, erstmals in Deutschland systematisch dargestellt und anhand empirischer Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Bereichen erläutert.
Finance at Work
In the collective psyche, a financier is a capitalist. In managerial capitalism, the notion of the ‘manager’ emerged, and the role of the manager was distinct from the role of the ‘owner’. Financial capitalism is similarly underpinned by financiers who are not the holders of the financial assets they buy, sell, trade or advise upon. Finance at Work explores the world of financiers, be they finance-oriented CEOs, CFOs, financial journalists, mergers and acquisitions’ advisors or wealth managers. Part I investigates the professional trajectories of members of corporate boards and financialisation as the dissemination of financial logic outside its primary ‘iron cage’; Part II res...
International Bibliography of Sociology
IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on the social sciences.
Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World
Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.
Les idéologies émergentes des politiques territoriales
Une hypothèse nourrit l'ensemble des travaux sur les politiques locales : celle de leur croissante standardisation. Au questionnement " does politics matter ? " des années 1970 et 1980, en particulier autour de la réalité du pouvoir des maires, les chercheurs répondent dans la décennie suivante en invoquant les multiples facteurs qui pré-déterminent le champ de possibilité de l'action publique. Tout le monde ferait à peu près la même chose partout, plus ou moins vite, plus ou moins bien, en fonction des ressources disponibles. La variable politique, aveuglante en période électorale, perdrait toute pertinence à mesure que le processus décisionnel se durcit. Cette livraison de ...
Encyclopedia of Professionalization
Professionalization has become a given in the worlds of work and education. For a wide variety of professions, public and private organizations and training and further education courses, professionalization is an inescapable reality. However, it takes on diverse, even contradictory meanings, according to what it represents: a managerial imperative imposed by public or managerial policies, or a set of goals defined by an ideal of service or quality of work. The purpose of Encyclopedia of Professionalization is to discuss the current challenges facing professionalization and, by exploring major research traditions, to clarify the meanings associated with this concept and the various phenomena it encompasses. Three major notions of professionalization are examined: the manufacturing of professions in pursuit of autonomy, the rise of professionalisms embodying notions of a job well done, and the construction of renewed professionalities at the very heart of work situations and training systems.
