- 'Reassembling the Social': “A network is not a thing, but actors often are.”
- Actor Network Theory: “A theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationships.”
GOOGLE SEARCHES
Brenda Laurel
“Convergence is in the air. One cannot help but sense that the trajectory is an exponential curve.”
Research Methodologies
- Self-reflection: We discover ourselves through self-reflection.
- Participative observation: To fully understand a group, we must become part of the group.
- Symbolic interaction: We communicate through the exchange of language and symbols.
- Auto-ethnography: When we connect personal experiences and anecdotes to concepts we gain a richer understanding of the concept.
- Dichotomous thinking: Thinking in binary, or extreme ‘black-or-white’ categories, helps us understand concepts through consideration of what they are not.
- Structures and structuring: The network of institutions through which we interact provides structure to our society.
- Interpretation: When we interpret information of any kind we create our own meaning.
- Sharing thoughts and mental processes: When presenting conclusions it is often helpful to share your thoughts and mental process to support your conclusions.
- Participative observation: To fully understand a group, we must become part of the group.
- Symbolic interaction: We communicate through the exchange of language and symbols.
- Auto-ethnography: When we connect personal experiences and anecdotes to concepts we gain a richer understanding of the concept.
- Dichotomous thinking: Thinking in binary, or extreme ‘black-or-white’ categories, helps us understand concepts through consideration of what they are not.
- Structures and structuring: The network of institutions through which we interact provides structure to our society.
- Interpretation: When we interpret information of any kind we create our own meaning.
- Sharing thoughts and mental processes: When presenting conclusions it is often helpful to share your thoughts and mental process to support your conclusions.
'Sharing the World' by Luce Irigaray
“We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which the other belongs.”
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‘Peripheral Visions’ by Mary Catherine Bateson
“The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.”
'Liquid Modernity' by Zygmunt Bauman
“To ‘be modern’ means to modernize – compulsively, obsessively; not so much just ‘to be’, let alone to keep its identity intact, but forever ‘becoming’, avoiding completion, staying underdefined.”
https://iated.org/inted/
INTED 2020 seems like a worthy pursuit.
https://www.egosnet.org/2020/hamburg/CALL_for_Short_Papers
There are so many areas of focus in organizational studies, and so many perspectives on each area!
Participant Observation
“A research technique in anthropology and sociology characterized by the effort of an investigator to gain entrance into and social acceptance by a foreign culture or alien group so as better to attain a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure of the society.”
Social Construction of Reality
“The theory that the way we present ourselves to other people is shaped partly by our interactions with others, as well as by our life experiences.”
Symbolic Interactionism
“A sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.”
Action Research
“A philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are linked together by critical reflection.”