From Joseph Bensman : essays on modern society / edited and introduced by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bensman, Joseph (Author)
Vidich, Arthur J. (Author)
Lilienfeld, Robert (Author)
Gerver, Israel (Author)
Givant, Michael (Author)
Other Authors: Jackall, Robert (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content)
Graham, Duffy (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Published: Knoxville, TN : Newfound Press, University of Tennessee Libraries, [2014] ©2014
Subjects:
Bensman, Joseph > Political and social views.
Sociologists > United States > History > 20th century > Biography.
Sociology.
Bureaucracy.
Crime > Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:vi, 688 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Creator and disturber / Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham
  • Autobiographical essay : the sociologist on the cutting edge / Joseph Bensman
  • Part 1. Bureaucracy. The meaning of work in bureaucratic society / Joseph Bensman with Bernard Rosenberg ; Power cliques in bureaucratic society / Joseph Bensman with Arthur J. Vidich ; Bureaucratic and planning attitudes / Joseph Bensman with Robert Lilienfeld
  • Part II. Crime and morality. Crime and punishment in the factory / Joseph Bensman with Israel Gerver ; Official and white-collar crime in the United States and the Soviet Union / Joseph Bensman ; The advertising man and his work / Joseph Bensman ; Ethics and social structure / Joseph Bensman
  • Part III. Leadership and legitimacy. The crisis of confidence in modern politics / Joseph Bensman ; Charisma and modernity / Joseph Bensman with Michael Givant ; Max Weber's concept of legitimacy / Joseph Bensman
  • Part IV. Expertise. Toward a sociology of expertness / Joseph Bensman with Israel Gerver ; The Springdale case / Joseph Bensman with Arthur J. Vidich ; Who writes what in the bureaucratic university? / Joseph Bensman ; The aesthetics and politics of footnoting / Joseph Bensman
  • Part V. Culture and community. Changing institutions and ideologies / Joseph Bensman with Bernard Rosenberg ; Art and the mass society / Joseph Bensman with Israel Gerver ; The cultural contradictions of Daniel Bell / Joseph Bensman with Arthur J. Vidich ; A tSociologyheory of the contemporary American community / Joseph Bensman with Arthur J. Vidich ; Freedom, bureaucracy, and styles for dissent / Joseph Bensman with Arthur J. Vidich.