Communicating and organizing in context : the theory of structurational interaction / / Beth Bonniwell Haslett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452227003321
• Autore: Haslett Beth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-67488-8; 0-203-80937-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Collana: Communication series
• Disciplina: 302.3/5
• Soggetti: Communication in organizations; Communication; Organizational sociology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COMMUNICATING AND ORGANIZING IN CONTEXT The Theory of Structurational Interaction; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; SECTION I: A Framework for Organizing and Communicating; 1. Framing Communicating and Organizing; 2. A Frame System for Communicating; 3. A Frame System for Organizing; 4. Connecting Communicating and Organizing; SECTION II: Giddens' Structuration Theory; 5. Giddens' Structuration Theory; 6. Giddens: Context, Agency and Interaction; 7. Applying Giddens in Communicating and Organizing; SECTION III: Goffman on Communicating and Organizing; 8. Erving Goffman's Interaction Order9. Goffman's Framing of Interaction; 10. Goffman and Larger Social Institutions; SECTION IV: Toward a Theory of Structurational Interaction; 11. Toward a Theory of Structurational Interaction; 12. Applying Structurational Interaction; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Communicating and Organizing in Context integrates Giddens' structuration theory with Goffman's interaction order and develops a new theoretical base-the theory of structurational interaction-for the analysis of communicating and organizing. Both theorists emphasize ; tacit knowledge, social routines, context, social practices, materiality, frames, agency, and view communication as constitutive of social life and of organizing. Thus their integration in structurational interaction provides a coherent, communication-centric approach to analyzing communicating, organizing and their int