1st Edition

Turning Words, Spinning Worlds Chapter in Organizational Ethnography

By Michael Rosen Copyright 2000

    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