Soziale Zeit und Biographie

Brose, Hanns-Georg; Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika; Corsten, Michael

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“…Since the onset of the economic crisis in the early 1970s, labour markets have no longer been able to sustain 'standard biographies.' As Newman (1988), Kanter (1991), Sennett (1998), Beck (1986) and Brose et al (1993) note, capitalist enterprises seek profits in new ways:they merge, streamline, re-structure, outsource, etc. For their employees this implies repeated lay-offs, work searches and, if successful at all, a string of employers.…”

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Corporate Emotions and Emotions in Corporations

Flam¹

2002

The Sociological Review

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Although sociology of organizations never banned emotions from its field of inquiry, first the sociology of emotions elevated them to central research objects. Disparate research on various types of enterprises shows that both managers and employees are much more emotional than most scientists would care to admit. Under constant pressure not to display their fears, anxieties or worries, they have to balance a mixture of emotions attending solidarity and competition with their peers. Whereas managerial roles actually call for occasional displays of anger at subordinates, anger is beyond the pale for subordinates who are supposed to swallow anger, humiliation or fear. Capitalist labour, no matter whether this of managers or that of workers, exacts a heavy emotional toll. While in handling their work managers rely heavily on the emotional support of their peers and secretaries, employees spin nostalgic stories or take to subversive workplace humour. Against this broader perspective, Arlie Hochschild's research and its critique have focused exclusively on the workers' emotional toll. In centre of interest is emotional labour exacted by employers and the many ways of managing undesired feelingswhich this labour requires. Hochschild's critics stress that subordinates often find ways of evading supervision and playing with rules for emotional display, so that they are much less subject to emotion management than her research agenda implies. Although Hochschild's research and its echo produced the only coherent body of theory-guided research to emerge so far within the sociology of organizations under the influence of the sociology of emotions, the chapter ends with an argument that her valuable yet work-focused approach has become constraining in times of disjointed, turbulent capitalism. Social change demands that we enlarge our scope of inquiry to include the experience of lay-off and unemployment as well as work-unrelated emotions and the broader society into our purview.

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Corporate Emotions and Emotions in Corporations

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2002

The Sociological Review

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“…2 Although liberal members of the Prussian bureaucracy supported the freer market and the advantages it brought, being trained in the older curriculum of German cameralism, they were also aware of the need for a state-funded legal and institutional framework, for as well as freedom those 'trees and plants', once cultivated, also required some basic fosterage and care. As Eric Dorn Brose 3 and others have argued, Smithian economic liberty, as an isolated concept, did not fully capture the historic reality and the subsequent rhetoric of the Prussian state after its defeat in 1806. Rather, as Frank Schuurmans' 4 recent work on Altenstein proposes, it was the notion of a 'liberal state dirigism' that prevailed within much of Prussian economic policies, often creating a discrepancy between free evolution and activity of the individual and stately regulation and administration.…”

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Provisions Made for Prosperity and Affluence: Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr von Stein zum Altenstein and the Establishment of theGärtnerlehranstaltin Prussia

Brüsch¹

2007

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This paper addresses some of the reasons behind the Prussian state’s support for cultivation, (Landeskultur), in the early 19th century. Taking three different case studies, the paper sets out to demonstrate the importance of the garden in land improvement, and how this interest resulted in the foundation of an institution for the specific training and instruction of gardeners. Not only was this Königliche Gärtnerlehranstalt (Royal Gardener’s Institute), along with the Royal Botanical Garden and the Society for the Advancement of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian states, seen as an outstanding centre for the improvement of the Prussian landscape, it also combined practical theoretical, and scientific instruction. Merging agrarian and horticultural utility with beautiful gardens, it was aimed at the scientific schooling of land cultivators and experts of plant culture so providing technical support for those industries dedicated to garden culture. Copying the magnificent example of the Parisian Jardin des plantes not only was the garden regarded as a place in which the state’s affluence and prosperity was rooted, it also combined cameralistic as well as the scientific and political ideas of the time. The gardener became part of the agrarian political economy.

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The Sociology of Time or Temporalized Sociology

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2021

The Sociology of Time

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Soziale Zeit und Biographie

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Corporate Emotions and Emotions in Corporations

Corporate Emotions and Emotions in Corporations

Provisions Made for Prosperity and Affluence: Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr von Stein zum Altenstein and the Establishment of theGärtnerlehranstaltin Prussia

The Sociology of Time or Temporalized Sociology

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