July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
4h 9m
English
Burrell and Morgan (1979) presented their classic division of sociological paradigms along the dimensions of subjective-objective and stability-change. The former refers to assumptions on human nature, ontology, epistemology and methodology, and the latter to assumptions on the nature of society/organisation. These dimensions provide a matrix of four archetypes of sociological paradigms; “radical humanist”, “radical structuralist”, “interpretive” and “functionalist”. ...