Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular CultureRoutledge, 2007年12月21日 - 256 頁 This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as a compelling and critical arena in which the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work are played out. By articulating the knowledge in popular culture with that in theory, they provide new avenues for understanding work organizations as the dominant institutions in contemporary society. Rhodes and Westwood provide a critical review of how organizations are represented in various examples of contemporary popular culture. The book demonstrates how popular culture can be read as an embodiment of knowledge about organizations – often more compelling than those common to theory – and explores the critical potential of such knowledge and the way in which popular culture can reflect on the spirit of resistance, carnivalisation and rebellion. |
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... genres of popular culture in particular that such representations can be found contemporarily—in written narratives, paintings and graphics, cartoons, television, cinema and popular music. It is to the latter three that we turn in this ...
... genres—hence we know that rock is a form of popular culture but opera is a form of high culture (although even such distinctions are contested now, see Collins, 1995). This issue of definition is, as Street points out, a political one ...
... genres such as rap, hip hop, punk, even jazz. He suggests that the form and language of such music is such that it militates against appeal to a wider, mass audience. More simply put, if your grandma likes it, it ain't rock an' roll ...
... genre of science fiction, we examine its critical salience in relation to the exploratory potential of science fiction and its ability to critically interrogate contemporary organizational behaviour. We argue that this critique is made ...
... genre of management/business novels. Some, such as Goldratt's (1984 and 1997, respectively) The Goal and The Critical Chain, Roberts' (2001) The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance, Jevons' (1998) Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman ...
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Articulating organization studies and popular culture | |
Men nonmen and masculinity in Glengarry Glen Ross The retardations of | |
Commerce is our goal Corporate power and the novum in Blade Runner | |
From The Rag Trade to Ab Fab Representations of work gender and | |
The reception of McDonalds in sociology and television animation | |
Bruce Springsteen management gurus and the trouble of the promised land | |
Selling out Authenticity resistance and punk rock | |
Sampling tinkering and the glitch Bricolage in popular music and | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |