William H Whyte: Organization Man

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Cover: 9780812218190 | Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation | Whyte | Buch

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Beschreibung

"The Organization Man is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. It established the categories Americans now use when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their lives."--David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Sta

Über den Autor

William H. Whyte (1917-1999) was editor of Fortune magazine and Distinguished Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous books of social and environmental analysis, including The Last Landscape, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Joseph Nocera, Fortune magazine executive editor, is an award-winning financial journalist. He is the author of A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class, which won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and he anchored the 1997 PBS Frontline documentary "Betting on the Market." Jenny Bell Whyte, a fashion designer, is credited with introducing African textiles to the mainstream American clothing market. Her current company, Museum Pieces to Wear, restores old textiles and incorporates them into new clothes. She and William H. Whyte were married in 1964.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Joseph Nocera

PART I. THE IDEOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION MAN

1. Introduction

2. Decline of the Protestant Ethic

3. Scientism

4. Belongingness

5. Togetherness

PART II. THE TRAINING OF ORGANIZATION MAN

6. A generation of Bureaucrats

7. The Practical Curriculum

8. Business Influence on Education

9. The Pipe Line

10. The "Well-Rounded" Man

PART III. THE NEUROSES OF ORGANIZATION MAN

11. The Executive: Non-Well-Rounded Man

12. 12. The Executive Ego

13. Checkers

PART IV. THE TESTING OF ORGANIZATION MAN

14. How Goon an Organization Man Are You?

15. The Tests of Conformity

PART V. THE ORGANIZATION SCIENTIST

16. The Fight against Genius

17. The Bureaucratization of the Scientist

18. The Foundations and Projectism

PART VI. THE ORGANIZATION MAN IN FICTION

19 Love That System

20. Society As Hero

PART VII. THE NEW SUBURBIA: ORGANIZATION MAN AT HOME

21. The Transients

22. The New Roots

23. Classlessness in Suburbia

24. Inconspicuous Consumption

25. The Web of Friendship

26. The Outgoing Life

27. The Church of Suburbia

28. The Organization of Children

29. Conclusion

Afterword, by Jenny Bell Whyte

Appendix: How to Cheat on Personality Tests

Acknowledgments

Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	448
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780812218190
ISBN-10:	0812218191
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Whyte, William H
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	University of Pennsylvania Press
Maße:	208 x 148 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	William H Whyte
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.06.2002
Gewicht:	0,72 kg

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