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Agency and Organization: Towards an Organizational Theory of Society

Göran Ahrne
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In this paper, the authors present a history of what the social landscape and the organizational scenery of the world and everyday life in the context of social systems, structures, and landscapes.
Abstract
Part 1 Social systems, structures, landscapes: the world and everyday life the world of the new theoretical movement system and lifeworld system, structure and structuration a new grand theory? the history of what the social landscape. Part 2 The organizational scenery: paradigms lost what is organized? and what is not organized? how is it organized? types of organizations individuals, organizations and social landscapes the organizational scenery and the social world. Part 3 The individual domain: organizations in everyday life movements among multiple realities the seriality of everyday life getting off the track. Part 4 Between organizations: individuals and organizations in the environment the terrain interaction within and across organizational sectors the nation-state as an organization of compromises the organizational limits of the welfare state the movements and adaptions of capitalist enterprises the linking of affiliations in everyday life. Part 5 A summary - organized actors, unorganized organizations: individuals and organizations unorganized organizations.

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