Sociology of Organization and Culture
The research field Sociology of Organization and Culture is dedicated to the interrelationship of organization and culture. Organization is always conditioned by culture. The forms and processes of organizing are based on cultural dispositions and power relations of experiencing, feeling, and acting, therefore on materially, media-technologically, spatially, and affectively shaped orders. Simultaneously, the study of cultural practices and orders requires an organizational perspective. Culture manifests and changes on the level of organized and organizing collaboration, cooperation and discourse.
Organization studies understood from a cultural studies perspective (or cultural studies understood in terms of organizational theory) thus denote a broad approach to order and disorder and to the everyday process of the social coming into order. They operate in and at the margins of organizational and cultural sociology and international Organization Studies; as well as at the intersections with cultural theory, literary and media studies, art theory, human geography, and cultural anthropology.
The main research areas of the Sociology of Organization and Culture include:
- the interrelation of organization and media technology in and before the age of "digital cultures" and its social and political consequences
- old and new forms and processes of the organization of art and culture as well as the artistic processing and reflection of modes of organization and organizational structures, especially in literature, theater, and the visual arts
- the spatial and urban constitution and contested nature of organizational processes
- the affective and atmospheric constitution and power of organizational modes
- color as a force and medium of organizing
- old and new approaches of ethnographic, experimental and performative social and cultural research
- the reorganization of university teaching and learning, especially with regard to the exploration of spaces and atmospheres of teaching