Office Setting as Organizational Structure in 'Bartleby the Scrivener'
| Autor: | Lori Duin Kelly |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | SAGE Open, Vol 7 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2158-2440 21582440 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2158244017690430 |
| Popis: | This article uses a methodology from the social sciences known as institutional ethnography to analyze the office setting in Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a site of social organization. This approach contributes to an understanding of how that office came to adopt specific structures as crucial to its functioning and how, as a consequence of those structures, individuals’ roles within the organization’s hierarchies became constituted. As fieldwork occurs inside of organizations, institutional ethnography also provides a tool for identifying and evaluating linguistic markers for an individual’s placement within a larger organizational structure. This approach to the story seems particularly useful for understanding the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of “Bartleby.” At the same time, it provides a method for identifying the larger institutional process at work in Melville’s story, one that contributes to the reproduction of a system of social relations in the workplace that requires subordination and compliance to insure its success. |
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