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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... identity as a 'servant of power' (Baritz, 1960). Despite this initial observation, we also knew that there was a long history of skepticism towards the popular amongst academics and intellectual elites (Rhodes, 2004). This is a view ...
... identities are being eroded, that modern culture is a trash culture, that art is under threat and that the enlarged role of the mass media allows them to exercise a powerful ideological influence over their audiences” (Strinati, 2005 ...
... identity in relation to an inferiorized popular 'other' and the interpenetration of ideas between the two. Despite the relations between the study of management and organizations and popular culture discussed in Chapter 2, the ...
... identity, violence and language in organizational contexts and in relation to the capitalist ethos. We surface these issues by discussing the 1992 film version of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. We argue that Mamet not only offers a ...
... identity. In Chapter 6, we shift our attention from the cinema to television. Here we give a discussion of British situation comedies and how they have represented gender, class and difference at work. By reviewing these television ...
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3 Articulating organization studies and popular culture | 39 |
The retardations of the masculine in contemporary capitalistic organizations | 53 |
Corporate power and the novum in Blade Runner | 76 |
Representations of work gender and the politics of difference in British sitcoms | 93 |
7 The reception of McDonalds in sociology and television animation | 118 |
8 Bruce Springsteen management gurus and the trouble of the promised land | 134 |
Authenticity resistance and punk rock | 151 |
Bricolage in popular music and in organization practice | 172 |
Notes | 198 |
References | 203 |
Index | 230 |