Pdf alvin gouldners life and work is considered within the framework of his own attempt to fashion a reflexive sociology during the second half of. In the first half, gouldner was a functionalist and dutifully contributed insights and theoretical innovations to the paradigm, even while remaining critical of talcott parsons own version of structurafunctionalism. Alvin gouldners life and work is considered within the framework of his own attempt to fashion a reflexive sociology during the second half of his career. Louis 19571967, at the university at buffalo 19471952, president of the society for the study of social problems 1962, professor of sociology at the university of amsterdam 19721976 and max weber professor of sociology at washington university from 1967. Afirst distinction is between conditional and unconditional generosity. If someone voluntarily shares a cake with somebody else, he or she adopts an. Metaphysical pathos and the theory of bureaucracy authors.
Alvin ward gouldner july 29, 1920 december 15, 1980 taught sociology at antioch college 19521954 and was professor of sociology at washington university in st. Pdf kwansei gakuin university school of sociology journal 84. Gouldner led an ethnographic study in a mine and identified there various patterns of bureaucracy and. Alvin ward gouldner 19201980 was an american sociologist who made his early and lasting mark in the field of industrial sociology. Confronting gouldner sociology and political activism brill.
The libcom library contains nearly 20,000 articles. Gouldner, alvin ward, 1920publication date 1954 topics social conditions, industrial management, bureaucracy publisher glencoe, ill. The sociological ambivalence of bureaucracy for nummi workers and for employees in other settings where bureaucracy takes an ostensibly enabling form is not well accounted for by either weber or gouldner. Gouldner and industrial sociology at columbia university. In his first study, patterns of industrial bureaucracy 1954, gouldner interrogated. Gouldner 19201980 was a leading sociologist of his era who. Alvin gouldners life and work is considered within theframe work of his own. And this is not a question that is straightforward to answer. Gouldner argues that a democratic variation of rational domination representative bureaucracy can be more efficient tban the authoritarian variation, and that, accordingly, the iron cage of rationalisation is not inevitable.
For sociology renewal and critique in sociology today pdf epub. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more. Alvin gouldner gave the title for sociology to one of his books gouldner 1973. Gouldners themes are provided by both the empirical. Gouldner has developed a conception of rational domination which is different from that developed by max weber. Gouldner 192080 came from an older generation of leftists, but he was an instinctive real utopian, search ing for the emancipatory moments in sociology and the world it described.