Category: NEW BOOK ACQUISITIONS
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“White Collar” & “The Power Elite”
I’m very happy to add these classics to my library. C. Wright Mills was a great sociologist, a particularly bright star in a golden age of American organisational analysis. The observations in “White Collar” resonate 70 years on, which is an apt reminder of how continuity prevails over change. I am less familiar with “The…
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“The View from Goffman”
I’m excited to have received this collection of essays edited by Jason Ditton today, who himself was the author of some of the best organisational studies of his time. “Part Time Crime” and “Controlology” remain under-appreciated masterpieces in my view. Regardless, I believe this to be the first collection of Goffman essays compiled (back in…
Dr Martin James 