1st Edition
Turning Words, Spinning Worlds Chapter in Organizational Ethnography
By Michael Rosen
Copyright 2000
261 Pages
by
Routledge
261 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and advertising to the subworld of drug dealing.
Organizational Ethnography; Introduction; Chapter 1 Coming to Terms with the Field: Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography; Chapter 2 Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance; Chapter 3 You asked for it: Christmas at the Bosses’ Expense; Ecological Ethnography; intro1 Introduction; Chapter 4 Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow; Chapter 5 Staying on the String: The Yo and the Market in Eighty-Nine; Chapter 6 Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Kim S. Schmahmann; Contingent Knowledge; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 7 There to Here and no Way Back: The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer, Thomas P. Mullen; Chapter 8 Scholars, Travelers, Thieves: On Concept, Method, and Cunning in Organizational Ethnography;
Biography
Rosen, Michael
Rosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices
It is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together
