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Kniha Casing a Promised Land H.Lloyd Goodall

Casing a Promised Land

The Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer

Autor: H.Lloyd Goodall
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: Southern Illinois University Press
Dostupnosť: Čaká sa dotlač
Termín neznámy
37.22 €
Now available for the first time in paperback and expanded by a new chapter and an afterword entitle...

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Autor
H.Lloyd Goodall
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
1994
Stránok
203
EAN
9780809319428
ISBN
9780809319428
Enbook ID
06312402
Vydavateľ
Southern Illinois University Press
Hmotnosť
330
Rozmery
157 x 235 x 18

Kompletný popis

Now available for the first time in paperback and expanded by a new chapter and an afterword entitled "'Surrendering to the Mystery, ' or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go", this ground-breaking study by H. L. Goodall, Jr., examines what happens when a communication scholar ventures out of academia into the community workplace. Using the techniques of social science and literary journalism, Goodall reveals the tensions between order and creativity in the real world and how these tensions place him into a crisis of interpretation. "Becoming an Organizational Detective", the first chapter is a brief autobiographical sketch of how Goodall moved from the role of cultural outsider to that of cultural insider within the high-technology texts and contexts of Huntsville, Alabama. Against this backdrop, he explores the lives led by people within organizations against the backdrop of his own "many-storied story". Through the use of an interpretive field method, cultural ethnography, Goodall utilizes these "many-storied stories" to provide a richer, deeper sense of the experience of a researcher observing and interpreting organizational lives. His stories take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential patterns. In the first mystery, "Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company", Goodall looks at the transition of the Huntsville regional office of a Boston-based computer software company where the lives and social dramas of the participants reflect the current state of high technology, a blend of fantasy and stress stemming from that fantasy, that mingle with his own. In"The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars", Goodall penetrates the various defenses of the Star Wars command office in Huntsville to discover its secrets and surprises. "Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp" illustrates how a supposedly "innocent" th

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