Communicating and organizing in context : the theory of structurational interaction

Summary: Communicating and Organizing in Context integrates Giddens' structuration theory with Goffman's interaction order and develops a new theoretical base--the theory of structurational interaction--for the analysis of communicating and organizing. Both theorists emphasize tacit knowledge, social routines, context, social practices, materiality, frames, agency, and view communication as constitutive of social life and of organizing. Thus their integration in structurational interaction provides a coherent, communication-centric approach to analyzing communicating, organizing and their interrelation.

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ISBN: 1136674837
ISBN: 9781136674839
ISBN: 9780805838954
ISBN: 9780203809372
ISBN: 0805838953
ISBN: 0203809378
ISBN: 113667487X
ISBN: 9781136674877
ISBN: 1136674888
ISBN: 9781136674884
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Framing communicating and organizing -- A frame system for communicating -- A frame system for organizing -- Connecting communicating and organizing -- Giddens' structuration theory -- Giddens: context, agency and interaction -- Applying Giddens' in communicating and organizing -- Erving Goffman's interaction order -- Goffman's framing of interaction -- Goffman and larger social institutions -- Toward a theory of structurational interaction -- Applying structurational interaction.