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  2. Alan Fox (sociologist) - Wikipedia

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    Alan Fox DFM (23 January 1920 – 26 June 2002) was an English industrial sociologist, who revolutionised the separate discipline of industrial relations. Fox, who grew up in Manor Park, London, [1] was the son of Walter Henry Fox and Rhoda Fox, née Rous. Walter Fox was a machine enameller by trade and a veteran of the First World War.

  3. Industrial sociology - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to ...

  4. Daniel Bell - Wikipedia

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    Two of his books, the End of Ideology and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, were listed by the Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 most important books in the second half of the twentieth century. Besides Bell, only Isaiah Berlin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Camus, George Orwell, and Hannah Arendt had two books so listed. [21]

  5. Industrial society - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, an industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the Western world in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution , and replaced the agrarian societies of ...

  6. Alfred D. Chandler Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Chandler's book Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (1962) examined the organization of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. He found that managerial organization developed in response to the corporation's business strategy.

  7. Outline of sociology - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology: . Sociology – the study of society [1] using various methods of empirical investigation [2] and critical analysis [3] to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.

  8. Herbert J. Gans - Wikipedia

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    Herbert J. Gans (born May 7, 1927) [1] is a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007.. One of the most prolific and influential sociologists of his generation, Gans came to America in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and has sometimes described his scholarly work as an immigrant's attempt to understand America.

  9. Bibliography of sociology - Wikipedia

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    The New Urban Sociology. [48] Hutter, Mark. 2007. Experiencing Cities: A Global Approach. [49] Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. [50] "[This book] became perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning, and simultaneously helped to kill off the modern movement in architecture." [51]