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1、ASocietyofOrganizationsAuthor(s):CharlesPerrowSource:TheoryandSociety,Vol.20,No.6(Dec.,1991),pp.725-762Publishedby:SpringerStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/657602.Accessed:12/12/201322:42YouruseoftheJSTORarchiveindicatesyouracceptanceoftheTerms&ConditionsofUse,availablea
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4、ionsAsocietyoforganizationsCHARLESPERROWDepartmentofSociology,YaleUniversityItisacommonplacetodaythatorganizationsareakeyelementofU.S.societyandthoseofotherindustrializednations.IargueherethattheimportanceoflargeorganizationsintheUnitedStatesisstillinsuffi-cientlyappreciated.
5、Thenineteenth-centuryindustrialrevolution,muchofourpoliticsandsocialstructure,andmanyofthecrisesofthe1980sand1990smustbereinterpretedinthelightof"organizationalvariables."Icannotdoallofthisinanessay,butIlayouttheargumentandlightlyillustrateit.Theimportanceinhistoryoforganizat
6、ionsassuch,asdistinctfromindividualleaders,economicexchanges,socialclassesetc.,isincreas-inglyrecognized.Othershavemadevaluableandextendedobserva-tionsalongtheselines.RobertPresthusannounceditonagrandscalewithhis1962volume,TheOrganizationalSociety;HenryJacobywasevengranderinh
7、isTheBureaucratizationoftheWorld.Thepowerofthemodemcorporation,anotherthemeofmywork,isalsowidelydis-cussed,asinChristopherStone'sWheretheLawEndsandJamesCole-man'sTheAsymmetricSociety,andintheorganizationalanalysislitera-ture.'Thetopic,however,issocommodious,asexemplifiedbyThe
8、Sourcehimself,MaxWeber,thatnoapologyisneededforyetanotherinquiry.Myo
