L'A. envisage les processus de division au sein des organisations. Il s'efforce de montrer comment ceux-ci induisent une multiplication des identites. Il etudie le rapport entre identite et division et examine les phenomenes de subdivision dans le cadre organisationnel en matiere spatiale, fonctionnelle, generationnelle et professionnelle

The Two Sociologies

Dividing organizations and multiplying identities

(1977). Interpretation and evidence. Western Journal of Speech Communication: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 32-42.

Interpretation and evidence

While the existence of an ‘emotional turn’ within the social sciences is now widely acknowledged, some areas have garnered less specific attention than others. Perhaps the most significant absence within this literature is an explicit exploration of the relationship between emotions and relations of power and domination. This article will attempt such an endeavour. In doing so, I will draw on some key work from within the sociology of emotions, such as Barbalet, Collins, Kemper and Turner, and from the power literature within social theory more generally, including Dahl, Elias, Foucault, Giddens, Gramsci and Lukes. The main thrust of the argument is that power and emotion are conceptual twins in need of a serious theoretical reunion, and that emotions have played a largely unacknowledged, ‘under-labouring’ role within most theories of power. The need for a more unified approach to these two concepts is highlighted.

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Emotions and power: reconciling conceptual twins

The transfer of ideas into Anglo-American human geography:

The predominant theoretical perspectives in social gerontology reflect a normative bias toward adjustment of aging individuals to the society. This bias is reinforced through the methodological pre...

The Two Sociologies

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Dividing organizations and multiplying identities

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Emotions and power: reconciling conceptual twins

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