SOC 5400 - [Organizational Research]

Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

D. Strang.

This seminar focuses on contemporary sociological research on organizations. It centers theoretically on the interplay of institutional, ecological, and choice-theoretic accounts of organizational structure and action. Subjects include organizational founding and mortality, change in organizational practices over time, the relationship between organizations and their legal, social, and cultural environment, and stratification and mobility within organizations.