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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... particular hierarchies in society. Thus, it is argued that the “distinction between fine and popular art loses credibility in Postmodernism because they are seen more as fostering political illusions than worthy ambitions” (Krukowski ...
... particular instantiations of culture as a set of meaningful and meaning generating texts. We read popular culture as an embodiment of knowledge about organizations that can be more compelling than that common to theory and that can ...
... particular cultural forms from amongst other, and making evaluations of their worth” (Street, 1997:8). Notwithstanding the significant differences between these definitions, Storey (1998: 17) points out that “whatever else popular ...
... particular ways that it can be engaged with. Such an engagement, for example, can connect with products of mass culture as a form of resistance and critique – they can offer defiance as a weapon to deny power such that “actions of ...
... particular area or example of popular culture and discusses it in terms of how it relates to knowledge about work and organizations. Each of these essays are by and large 'stand-alone' pieces in that while they are connected together by ...
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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 |