Active Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Etzioni, Amitai

Sociology

Free Press

Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations, Rev. Ed.

Business & Money

Economics

The moral dimension: Toward a new economics

Author Bio Amitai Etzioni, University Professor at George Washington University and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School, 1987-89, is the author of numerous books, including The Active Society.

The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

Business Culture

Complex organizations constitute one of the most important elements which make up the social web of modern societies. By "organizations" we mean social units which are predominantly oriented to the attainment of specific goals. The major types of organizations to be discussed are those which have bureaucratic characteristics. Thus, our journey will lead us to the study of both formal and informal aspects of organizations.

A sociological reader on complex organizations

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Sociologist Etzioni, now of George Washington U., was Carter's reindustrialization guru, and his plan for national salvation is reminiscently preoccupied with the cultural decay manifest in egocentrism and ""me-ism."" In this, he also accords with Moral Majority adherents;but he dissents from their primitivist and authoritarian solutions. To rebuild the decayed ""infrastructure"" necessary for a second economic take-off--the transportation, education, and energy systems--we will have to create institutions that foster ""mutuality"" and ""civility"" (i.e., a sense of the common good). Rather than leaving children to ""work through"" their ego-centered character formation, schools will have to engage in personality-shaping. (Etzioni's suggestions: more resources directed toward the lower levels of education; more work/study programs for teenagers.) Within the family, mutuality and civility can be engendered by ""basic parenting,"" which doesn't amount to much more than common sense. (This is the kind of tract in which people do not converse or discuss, they ""dialogue."" Sometimes they even ""megalogue."") Another predictable concern is consumerism, enemy of the deferred gratification requisite for reindustrialization; still another, the proliferation of social-service ""entitlements."" And piety is heaped upon piety as Etzioni writes that management should recognize the human needs of workers, while simultaneously deferring the ""quality of life society"" until after reindustrialization has been accomplished.

An immodest agenda: Rebuilding America before the twenty-first century

New Press

Immodest Agenda Rebuilding America Befor

McGraw-Hill,Inc.

Organizations in Society

Gross, Edward

Management & Leadership

Pearson College Div

Social problems (Prentice-Hall foundations of modern sociology series)

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Social Problems (Prentice-Hall Foundations of Modern Sociology Series)

Reveals the problem of political corruption in the U.S. government, considers its implications and offers possible solutions to this dangerous phenomenon

Capital Corruption: An Assault on American Democracy

Politics & Government

Harcourt

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