Oxford Handbooks Online : The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies Classical Foundations Adler, Paul S. Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953523-1 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
9 How Durkheim's Theory of Meaning-making Influenced Organizational Sociology doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0009 Frank Dobbin Abstract: Introduction – Durkheim's Early Work on Social Structure – Durkheim's Theory of Meaning – Durkheim's Influence on Post-War Sociologists of Knowledge – Durkheim's Influence on Organizational Sociology – Second-Wave Power Theorists and Cognitive Classification – Conclusion Keywords: Emile Durkheim, organizational theory,
Frank Dobbin is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (Cambridge, 1994) he explores the historical origins of contemporary industrial policy approaches. He traces modern economic sociology to its roots in classical sociological theory in The New Economic Sociology: An Anthology (Princeton, 2004) and explores how corporate human resources professionals managed to define what discrimination meant under the Civil Rights Act in Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton, forthcoming).	Frank Dobbin External web page