Session 03: Social Construction Processes
Topics
The classical work underlying how people construct meaning to their lives is symbolic interactionism, which Scott and Davis classify as a natural view of organizations. This week we build on this view by examining sensemaking, enactment, and structuration perspectives of organizing.
Prof. Van de Ven’s class slides
Social consruction class discussion slides by Jing and Linhoff
Required Readings
Berger & Luckmann (1966) The Social Construction of Reality, NY: Doubleday, pp. 47- 128.
Weick (1995) Sensemaking in Organizations, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, Chpts. 1&2, pp. 1-62.
Weick (1993) "The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster," ASQ, 38: 628-652.
Barley & Tolbert (1997) “Institutionalization and Structuration: Studying the links between action and institution,” Organization Studies, 18, 1: 93-117.
Garud & Rappa (2004) A socio-cognitive model of technology evolution: The case of cochlear implants. OS5:344-362.
Supplementary Readings
Giddens (1979) Central Problems in Social Theory, UC Press, Chpt. 2, pp. 49-95.
Weick (1979) The Social Psychology of Organizing, Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, especially ch. 6.
Stryker & Statham (1985) “Symbolic Interaction and Role Theory,” Chapter 6 in Lindsey & Aronson (Eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. 1, Third Edition, NY: Random House, pp. 311-378
Barley (1986) “Technology as an occasion for structuring,” ASQ, 31: 78-108.
Weick & Roberts (1993) "Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks," ASQ, 38: 357-81.
DeSanctis & Poole (1994), “Capturing and complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory,”
OS, 5: 121-147.
Zbaracki (1998) “The Rhetororic and Reality of Total Quality Management,” ASQ, 43: 602
Porac, Thomas, Wilson, Paton, & Kanfer (1995) Rivalry and the industry model of Scottish knotwear produces, ASQ, 40: 203-227.
Weick, Sutcliffe & Obstfeld (2005) “Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking,” Org. Sci. 16, 4: 409-421.
Fiss & Zajac (2006) The symbolic management of strategic change: Sensegiving via framing and decoupling, AMJ 49: 1173-1193.