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"This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical political-cultural transformations involving the embrace of market fundamentalism and a market society: namely, corporations, those who direct them, and those who use them for their own benefit. Part I examines the big US-based tech firms (i.e. Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon), highlighting numerous tensions and contradictions between their highly cultivated, flattering, yet unwarranted, public images and the reality of how they operate as extremely competitive, at times deceptive, profit-seeking entities. A focus on these firms also highlights just how dramatically the economic realm has been transformed over the past few decades due to accelerating advances in information technology and corporate-managed globalization. Part II explores how the state has been pushed back via privatization and corporate predation in such areas as health care, military/security, criminal justice, philanthropy, and education, and concludes by looking forward with a vision of a knowledge-caring society that must rebalance corporate-managed market fundamentalism. Through the use of clear cases that bring the theory to life for students, the book is ideal as a supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a range of coursework in the fields of organizational theory and behavior, leadership in organizations, and management responsibility and business ethics. It will also be of great interest to students of sociology, specifically in the areas of complex organizations, economic sociology, theory, political sociology, and law and society"--

Social Structure examines the social order undergirding our advanced industrial society by exploring the recent evolution of major social institutions, including the economy, politics and government, family, religion, education, and the mass media. This new, full-color resource helps readers understand how these institutions have been shaped by the great transformation to modern society characterized by the enormous growth and prevalence of rational, complex, and bureaucratic organizations

Findings are presented from a study of 43 advanced professional school students in law and business using in-depth interviews to investigate their orientations to work and family life. Thematic types are developed that identify the orientations of segments within the sample. These types draw on respondents' implicit and explicit definitions of the situation, paying special attention to key assumptions about gender-based work and family roles. Interestingly, the findings indicate a certain degree of asymmetry between the men and the women with respect to how they plan to construct work and family life. The dominant segment of men identified strongly with a modified form of providing, whereas others identified with either a strong or a weak form of egalitarianism. The dominant segment of women were oriented toward a strong form of egalitarianism, with others oriented toward a weak form of egalitarianism, and still others considered remaining single a realistic possibility.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Technopoly -- 1 Facebook: let the hacking begin! -- 2 Monopoly: Google it! -- 3 Apple: alas, something is rotten in Cupertino -- 4 Amazon: our Faustian bargain -- PART II Pushing back the state: privatization and corporate predation -- 5 Corporations and the state: legal-political environment -- 6 From the not-so-Affordable Care Act to the opioid crisis: an overdose of corporate influence -- 7 Ideological backdrop: attacks on state bureaucracy -- 8 Privatization of the military and the rise of corporate warriors -- 9 Privatization and the prison-industrial complex: the new Keynesianism -- 10 Administering democracy and the non-prophets of civil society: the rise of the charitable industrial complex 129 -- 11 Education reform without educators and the philanthrocapitalism of corporate elites 134 -- 12 Looking forward: confronting risk society by envisioning a countersystem of care -- Afterword -- References -- Index.