WE MIGHT JUST BE BETTER THAN BOURDIEU (9 November 2022)

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Can we theorize with the best scholars sociology has to offer? Perhaps we are not quite as bad with jargon monoxide as they are. We do pay more attention to technology than they do. On the other hand, our chase of new technology and our publish or perish paradigm are stopping us from even trying to do the big, timeless stuff. So if you are interested in our lengthy rant about jargon, social theory, institutions, sociomateriality and publishing, tune in and enjoy.

Episode Reading List

  • Sutton, B. (2010). Sociomateriality: More Academic Jargon Monoxide. Bob Sutton Work Matters Blog, October 11, 2010, https://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/sociomateriality-more-academic-jargon-monoxide.html.
  • Orlikowski, W. J., & Scott, S. V. (2008). Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organization. Academy of Management Annals, 2(1), 433-474.
  • DiMaggio, P. J., & Powell, W. W. (1983). The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological Review, 48(2), 147-160.
  • Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-term Goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1087-1101.
  • Giddens, A. (1984). The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. University of California Press.
  • Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press.
  • Schatzki, T. R. (1996). Social Practices: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Human Activity and the Social. Cambridge University Press.
  • Bourdieu, P. (1987). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press.
  • Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Doubleday.
  • Andersson, K. (2022). RETRACTED: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan“. Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941221096600.
  • Healy, K. (2017). Fuck Nuance. Sociological Theory, 35(2), 118-127.
  • Berente, N., Gu, B., Recker, J., & Santhanam, R. (2021). Managing Artificial Intelligence. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1433-1450.
  • Murray, A., Rhymer, J., & Sirmon, D. G. (2021). Humans and Technology: Forms of Conjoined Agency in Organizations. Academy of Management Review, 46(3), 552-571.
  • Trist, E. L. (1981). The Evolution of Socio-technical Systems: A Conceptual Framework and an Action Research Program. Ontario Ministry of Labour.
  • Sarker, S., Chatterjee, S., Xiao, X., & Elbanna, A. R. (2019). The Sociotechnical Axis of Cohesion for the IS Discipline: Its Historical Legacy and its Continued Relevance. MIS Quarterly, 43(3), 695-719.
  • Leonardi, P. M. (2013). Theoretical Foundations for the Study of Sociomateriality. Information and Organization, 23(2), 59-76.
  • Berente, N., & Yoo, Y. (2012). Institutional Contradictions and Loose Coupling: Postimplementation of NASA’s Enterprise Information System. Information Systems Research, 23(2), 376-396.
  • Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor Books.
  • Friedland, R., & Alford, R. R. (1991). Bringing Society Back in: Symbols, Practices, and Institutional Contradictions. In W. W. Powell & P. J. DiMaggio (Eds.), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis (pp. 232-263). University of Chicago Press.
  • Truex, D. P., Holmström, J., & Keil, M. (2006). Theorizing in Information Systems Research: A Reflexive Analysis of the Adaptation of Theory in Information Systems Research. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 7(12), 797-821.
  • Garud, R., Hardy, C., & Maguire, S. (2007). Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Organization Studies, 28(7), 957-969.

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