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Office Setting as Organizational Structure in âBartleby the Scrivenerâ: | |
Lori Duin Kelly1  | |
关键词: interpersonal communication; human communication; communication studies; communication; social sciences; small group communication; organizational communication; literature; humanities; social anthropology; anthropology; | |
DOI : 10.1177/2158244017690430 | |
学科分类:社会科学、人文和艺术(综合) | |
来源: Sage Journals | |
【 摘 要 】
This article uses a methodology from the social sciences known as institutional ethnography to analyze the office setting in Herman Melvilleâs short story âBartleby the Scrivenerâ 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, individualsâ roles within the organizationâs hierarchies became constituted. As fieldwork occurs inside of organizations, institutional ethnography also provides a tool for identifying and evaluating linguistic markers for an individualâs placement within a larger organizational structure. This approach to the story seems particularly useful for understanding the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of âBartleby.â At the same time, it provides a method for identifying the larger institutional process at work in Melvilleâs 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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CC BY
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