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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953652403321
• Autore: Haslett Beth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2012; New York : , : Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, , 2012
• ISBN: 9781032919744; 1032919744; 9781136674884; 1136674888; 9780203809372; 0203809378
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Collana: Communication series
• Disciplina: 302.3/5
• Soggetti: Communication in organizations; Communication; Organizational sociology
• 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