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
12 Georg Simmel The Individual and the Organization doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199535231.003.0012 Alan Scott Abstract: Introduction: Simmel in Organization Studies – Simmel's Analysis of Sociation: Intersecting Social Circles and the Life/Form Distinction – Towards a Cultural Theory of Organization: The Case of the Secret Society – Contemporary Relevance: The Organizational Imperatives of ‘Fast Capitalism’ and the ‘High Commitment’ Organization Keywords: commitment, capital, circle, capitalism, relevance,
Alan Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research and teaching interests cover political and organizational sociology, and social theory. With respect to organization studies, he is editor of a recent collection on universities and their (regional) external environment, Bright Satanic Mills (Ashgate, 2007), and is a board member of the International Sociological Association's RC17, Organizational Sociology. With respect to social theory, he has published on Weber, Durkheim, and Karl Polanyi, and is co-editor and co-translator of Georg Simmel's Rembrandt (Routledge, 2005).	Alan Scott External web page