Industrial sociology

The industrial and business sociology had originally, "to do with the cut of social action, which is given by the industrial production of goods " for a definition of Ralf Dahrendorf. However, it is now (under the newer term in part: work and industrial sociology) wider than a sub-discipline of sociology, which has the social structures and social action in the field of company-type production of goods and services and their environment to the object.

Had Ralf Dahrendorf they still regarded as a special sociology of industrial society, as it has since the 1980s after a " cognitive and social identity change" new problems of industrial service society ( eg systemic rationalization, global production networks, services and reproductive work, balance of work and life ) open for the study of the " forms and consequences of different types of work in factories and offices and their interaction with society at large ."

From the perspective of this development, a breakdown in a business sociology on the one hand and industrial sociology on the other hand appears to be questionable. However, remains of the view is taken that the industrial and business sociology consists of three sub-areas, the following differentiation is justified:

  • The industrial sociology has to do with the study of the interactions between industries and companies, with the social structure and dynamics of industries, with the origin and history of industrialization, as well as their impact on the workplace and society.
  • The operating sociology with structures and systems in private and public service organizations to do with economic purpose-setting. Their focus is less the interactions between organization and society as the internal structures and relationships in the organizations themselves

Their respective research areas overlap, even if both are considered together as a special sociology. Joint intersections they have to work with sociology, organizational sociology and economic sociology.

  • 6.1 Introductions and overviews 6.1.1 Recent works
  • 6.1.2 Classical works

Development and approaches

The development of industrial sociology was initially strongly influenced by socio-political analyzes and reviews of the new industrial capitalist mode of production ( paradigmatically in "Das Kapital" Volume I by Karl Marx) as well as the social structure of industrial work and their often negatively valued consequences. With the increasing division of sociology of the history and social philosophy specific pure fact analyzes the sociological studies, so that the operating sociology could propose specific occupational or socio-political measures based on the analyzed facts. The Industrial Sociology also developed in the discussion of the " scientific management " (see Taylorism ), which was mainly determined by efficiency considerations. The increasing social and labor law that establishes a permanent constitution, it eventually facilitated the operation of sociology to withdraw to positivist fact analysis, while the industrial sociology not give up her (mostly critical ) socio-political terms.

Differences and similarities

A clear demarcation between industry and business sociology is for two reasons not always reasonable and possible: On the one hand there is a close relation between the problems of societal structural changes to an industrial society. On the other hand, allows the classification of people in the industry streamlined operation with all its consequences in organizational and social point of view, a clear separation not to. However, important to note is that the " industrial sociology " non- operational phenomena studied, such as the socio-psychological component of the " industrialization " (also the " de-industrialization ") and setting ( attitude ); on the other hand, there are numerous non-industrial enterprises (eg farms, craft shops, kindergartens, hospitals, bandits ).

New challenges of industrial sociology form the secular trends toward the service economy and knowledge society, which is reflected in the paradoxical conceptualization of the " post-industrial industrial sociology " ( German man).

Research directions

Industrial Sociology

In the Industrial Sociology in the following research directions can be distinguished:

  • The Human Relations Model
  • The formal organization theory
  • The Personality and Organization Theory
  • The Industrial Relations model (see Industrial Relations )
  • The case study approach ( SOFI Göttingen, Institute for Social Science Research, Munich )

Industrial sociology

The industrial sociology deals with this:

  • Questions of power and authority relationships in the industry operating
  • Organizational and group structures in industrial plant and its impact on the people
  • The ratio of the industrial firm to its environment
  • At the level of development sociology with the question of conditions and possible consequences of a possible social and ecologically adapted industrialization in developing societies.
  • At the level of the social actors with the settings to industrial plants and labor

Industrial sociologists of the German-speaking world ( after 1945 )

Walther Müller- Jentsch

Günther Wachtler

Günther Wachtler

Ernst August Jüres - Hanno Kesting

Markus Hertwig

J. vd Knesebeckstraße

Werner Mangold et al

Organizational studies Christoph Deutschmann Ludwig von Friedeburg Walter de Gruyter Helmut Schelsky Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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