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Management, organizations and contemporary social theory / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Ethnomethodology / Andrea Whittle & Frank Mueller -- Actor-network theory : Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Law / Damian O'Doherty -- Giddens and structuration theory / Ira Chatterjee, Jagat Kunwar and Frank den Hond -- Morphogenesis and reflexivity : margaret archer, critical realism and organizational analysis / Alistair Mutch -- Pierre Bourdieu and elites : making the hidden visible / Mairi Maclean and Charles Harvey -- Theodor Schatzki's theory and its implications for organization studies / Georg Loscher, Violetta Splitter and David Seidl -- Mary Douglas and institutions / Dean Pierides and Graham Sewell -- Norbert Elias and organizations / Robert van Krieken -- Luhmann and organizations as social systems / Xavier Deroy -- Organizing Foucault : power, knowledge and governmentality / Alan McKinlay and Eric Pezet -- The Frankfurt School and critical theory -- Edward Granter -- Judith Butler and performativity / Kate Kenny -- Castells and informationalism / Sandro Mendonça, Cátia Miriam Costa and Tiago Lima Quintanilha -- Liquefying modernity : Zygmunt Bauman as organization theorist / Stewart Clegg & Miguel Pina e Cunha -- Management, organizations and contemporary social theory : an index of possibilities / Miguel Pina e Cunha & Stewart Clegg -- Index.

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What is the best method for undertaking critical social theory, and what are its ontological and normative commitments? Andreas Reckwitz has developed compelling answers to these questions drawing on practice theory. As a practice theorist myself, I am very sympathetic to his approach. This paper sketches a social theory that extends the reach of practice theory to include non-human animals and allows us to discriminate between importantly different kinds of social formations. In doing so, I argue that a strongly normative basis for differentiating social phenomena is compatible with the methods of social theory and critical social theorists need not shy away from first-order moral commitments.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it. This book analyzes social stratification, the moral order, and culture systems.

Part I. Great Theorists -- Chapter 1. Toward a Sport Ethic: Science, Politics, and Weber's Sociology / Robert Beamish, PhD ; Four Pure Types of Action ; Science and Ethics: The Limits of Goal-Rational Action ; The Politics of Ethical Conduct in Sport ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Sources -- Chapter 2. Civilizing Sports: Figurational Sociology and the Sociology of Sport / Eric Dunning, PhD ; The Figurational Sociology of Sport and Its Critics ; Criticizing and Testing Elias ; The "Civilizing" of Modern Sports ; Soccer Hooliganism as an English and World Problem ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Sociological Imagination: Doing Autoethnography to Explore Intersections of Biography and History / Nancy Spencer, PhD ; Sociological Imagination ; Applying the Sociological Imagination to Research ; Applying Critical Sociological Imagination to My Studies ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Part II. Research Guided by Mid-Level Sociological Theories -- Chapter 4. The Sociology of Science: Sport, Training, and the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances / Ian Ritchie, PhD ; Theories in the Sociology of Science ; Sport and the Science of Training: The Conservation of Energy and Beyond ; Understanding the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 5. Political Economy: Sport and Urban Development / Kimberly S. Schimmel, PhD ; Urban Political Economy and Urban Regime Theory ; Sport Development and Urban Development in Historical Perspective ; Sport, Urban Regime, and Urban Development in Indianapolis ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 6. Institutional Logics Theory: Examining Big-Time College Sport / Richard M. Southall, EdD, and Mark S. Nagel, EdD ; Theory of Institutional Logics ; Case Study: 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Broadcasts ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 7. Playing for Whom? Sport, Religion, and the Double-Movement of Secularization in America / David Yamane, PhD, Charles E. Mellies, BA, and Teresa Blake, BA ; The Double Movement of Secularization ; Societal-Level Secularization: The Differentiation of Sport from Religion ; Sport as Civil Religion? ; Organizational Innovation Connecting Religion and Sport ; Religion and Spirituality at the Individual Level ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Part III. Theories of Inequality -- Chapter 8. Feminist Theory and the Study of Sport: An Illustration from Title IX / Angela J. Hattery, PhD ; The First Wave ; Modern Feminist Theory:The Second Wave ; Postmodern Feminism: The Third Wave ; Title IX and Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Sport ; Discussion ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 9. Social and Cultural Capital: Race, School Attachment, and the Role of High School Sports / Rhonda F. Levine, PhD ; Theoretical Frameworks ; Sport Participation, Academic Achievement and School Attachment ; Role of Coaches ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research Additional Resources -- Chapter 10. Race, Class, and Gender Theory: Violence Against Women in the Institution of Sport / Earl Smith, PhD, and Benny Cooper, BA ; The Issue ; Methods and Data ; Discussion ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 11. Masculinities and the Sociology of Sport: Issues and Ironies in the 21st Century / Bryan E. Denham, PhD -- Hegemonic Masculinity ; Constructions of Masculinity in Professional Football ; Constructions of Masculinity in Hardcore Bodybuilding ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 12. Getting Girls in the Game: Negotiations of Structure and Agency in a Girls' Recreational Sport Program / Cheryl Cooky, PhD ; Overview of Theories of Structuration ; Culture ; Girls in the Game ; Cultural Analysis: Discursive Constructions of Sport and the "At-Risk" Girls ; Helping Girls "At-Risk": The Structure of "Girls in the Game" ; "Doing Whatever We Want": Reproductive Agency at GIG ; Negotiating Agency and Constraint in Everyday Social Interactions: The Role of Culture in School-Sanctioned Verus Hip-Hop Femininities ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Part IV. Microlevel Theories -- Chapter 13. The Mundanity of Excellence: Tiger Woods and Excellence in Golf / Earl Smith, PhD ; Tiger the Golfer ; Theory of Dominance in Sport ; Discussion ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 14. Making it Big: Visible Symbols of Success, Physical Appearance, and Sport Figures / Bonnie Berry, PhD ; The Null Hypothesis and Methodology ; Observations of Sport, Fitness, and "Health" Magazine Images ; Interpretations: Some Features on Which to Focus ; Symbolic Interaction, Dramaturgy, and Image-Making ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Chapter 15. Sport and Multiple Identities in Postwar Trinidad: The Case of McDonald Bailey / Roy D. McCree, PhD ; Theoretical Considerations ; Methodology ; Athletic Representation and Multiple Identities: Trinidadian or British ; Conclusion ; Suggested Research ; Additional Resources -- Epilogue -- References -- Index -- About the Editor.

It is an exciting time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate both old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. Volume 20 of Political Power and Social Theory starts the ball rolling by showcasing articles that pursue similar themes

Network concepts are omnipresent in contemporary diagnoses (network society), management practices (network governance), social science methods (network analysis) and theories (network theory). Instigating a critical analysis of network concepts, this article explores the sources and relevance of networks in Foucault's social theory. I argue that via Foucault we can trace network concepts back to cybernetics, a research programme that initiated a shift from 'being' to 'doing' and developed a new theory of regulation based on connectivity and codes, communication and circulation. This insight contributes to two debates: Firstly, it highlights a neglected influence on Foucault's theory that travelled from cybernetics via structuralism and Canguilhem into his concept of power. Secondly, it suggests that network society and governance are neither a product of neoliberalism nor of technological artefacts, such as the Internet. They rather resulted from a distinct tradition of cybernetically inspired theories and practices.

The conception & function of critique in social sciences is discussed, based on the contention that social inquiry cannot & should not be divorced from critique, & that it is a necessary element of explanation, understanding, & is implicit in all valid analysis & interpretation. The idea of critique developed is aimed against "value free" social science & against research that is intended only to deal with what exists, rather than discover possibilities for optimal social change. It is noted that both perception & choices regarding research direction are never disinterested. The role of critique in the interpretation of subjective action is explored, & its dimension in the thought of Karl Marx is considered, including two problematic aspects of Marx's conception of critique. Finally, it is asserted that the problem of contemporary social science is not an excess of utopianism, but a deficit of critical consciousness & a willingness to serve the interests of the status quo. J. Weber.

The aim of this paper is to consider the connexion between social theory and research in the field of "industrial relations," drawing particularly upon the empirical data which have been acquired by a sociological investigation of the city of Windsor, Ontario. Even a cursory investigation of a city like Windsor indicates certain tendencies to be at work in highly unionized towns which do not seem to be adequately encompassed by the existing literature of industrial relations. We are concerned here to define what these tendencies are, to suggest some of the inadequacies of existing theory to handle them and to indicate a more adequate theoretical basis for the discussion of them.The traditional academic and research approach to trade unionism has always been that of economics, and it is usually within an economic framework that unionism is discussed. A sociologist, however, who approaches the subject for the first time, begins immediately to wonder why trade unions should have become, in our universities and research institutions, so exclusively matter for study by economists, whereas other social groupings in which men live and to which they give their time and their loyalties—churches, for example, or gangs, or families—have not excited the slightest interest on the part of that discipline. The answer to this question has its roots, it would seem, in the classical view that since everything in the market is a commodity, and labour is in the market, therefore labour is a commodity, and as such, has to be treated and studied by the academic discipline whose job it is to analyse market factors, of which labour costs are one.