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Labor organization and the third sector: hypotheses for the construction of the scientific object of economic sociology

The scientific uprising of de economic sociology is, nowadays, a relevant theme within the sociological sciences. The articulation between the sociological and the economical domains becomes visible mainly in the production, distribution, exchange and consummation of immaterial goods and services. Based on some authors’ documental reading and on paradigms’ analyses it was possible to compare and contrast the deep social and economical changes which cross, both the work’s organization and the third setor. As a whole, we can recognize changes on what concerns the work’s division, the formal hierarchical authority, the process of decision making and leadership in the organizations and institutions of the civil society. But we also can observe how the new technologies and the globalization, through the trans-national and multinational enterprises cause such a stroke in State-Nation. Considering this context, we are handling with an observation object that enormously increases the contemporaneous hypothesis of the object of the economical sociology.

Economical sociology; work’s division; formal hierarchical authority; decision making; leadership


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