The organizational shaping of collective identity: The case of lesbian and gay film festivals in New YorkSociological Forum - Tập 11 - Trang 231-261 - 1996
Joshua Gamson
Using information gathered during fieldwork on New York lesbian and gay film festival organizations, this paper argues that scholarship on identity has not paid sufficient attention to the organizational mediation of collective identity. The shape of collective identity—how internal instabilities and diversities are accommodated, in this case—depends not only on the emergent characteristics of the...... hiện toàn bộ
Control via concentration?: Political and business evidenceSociological Forum - Tập 1 - Trang 131-157 - 1986
Harrison C. White, Robert G. Eccles
This paper explores the relationship between concentration and control, in terms of both markets and hierarchies in economics and their analogues of polities and parties in politics. It is argued that the relationship is not always a positive one. In some cases the relationship is negative and in other cases there is no relationship at all. Insight into the determinants of the nature of this relat...... hiện toàn bộ
The in-depth interview: Between science and sociabilitySociological Forum - Tập 2 - Trang 388-400 - 1987
Karen E. Rosenblum
The social science interview is a temporally circumscribed, explicitly instrumental exchange conducted by relative strangers that demands (1) intimacy yet impersonality and (2) professionalism amidst sociability. This paradoxical structure is reflected in what is said, as well as in what isnot said. Requirements for intimacy and impersonality can be accomplished respectively through “fresh” and sc...... hiện toàn bộ
Earthquake Culture and Corporate ActionSociological Forum - - 2002
Dennis S. Mileti, Daniel M. Cress, JoAnne DeRouen Darlington
In this paper we examine the effects of different components of corporate culture on two different categories of action in both routine and jolted environments. Data were collected on a heterogeneous sample of 54 corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area. We examined how the values, knowledge, and practices dimensions of corporate culture influenced actions to prepare for responding to future ear...... hiện toàn bộ
Sex and gender: What do we know?Sociological Forum - Tập 5 - Trang 95-120 - 1990
Margaret Mooney Marini
The study of sex and gender is concerned with documenting the existence of differences between the sexes and explaining why those differences exist. This paper first examines what we know about how women and men differ, focusing on differences in social roles, and in the abilities and traits associated with those roles. The paper then examines why women and men differ. In addressing this question,...... hiện toàn bộ