Business Management
What is a sociological imagination, and can it help managers understand important issues such as the recent financial crisis?
Key Readings
Bauman, Z & Tim May (2001) Thinking Sociologically. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Wright-Mills, C (1961) The Sociological Imagination. New York: Grove Press
Granter, E. and Tischer, D. (2014) ‘Teaching The Crisis; A Primer’, Sociology (special issue on the financial crisis)
Hansen, L. L., & Movahedi, S. (2010, June). Wall Street Scandals: The Myth of Individual Greed1. In Sociological Forum (Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 367-374). Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Sinfield, A. (2011). Credit crunch, inequality and social policy. Social Policy in Challenging Times: Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems, 65-80.
Curran, D. (2014). The Challenge of the Financial Crisis for Contemporary Sociology. Sociology, 48(5), 1048-1054.
Dinerstein, A. C., Schwartz, G., & Taylor, G. (2014). Sociological Imagination as Social Critique: Interrogating the ‘Global Economic Crisis’. Sociology, 48(5), 859-868.
Barratt, E. (2014). C. Wright Mills, power and the power elites–a reappraisal. Management & Organizational History, 9(1), 92-106
Further Readings
Giddens, A. (2010) ‘The Scope of Sociology’ in Sociology: Introductory Readings eds. A Giddens & P Sutton
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Walsh, D. (1998) ‘Structure/Agency’ in Jenks, C. (ed.) Core Sociological Dichotomies (available on blackboard)
Bruce, S. (2000) Sociology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks
Berger, J. (1963) An Invitation to Sociology. New York: Anchor (Doubleday Books).
Giddens, A. (1986) Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education.
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