Industrial sociology has become a new and vital subdiscipline within sociology. The field, which may be defined simply as the application of sociological principles to the realm of work and industrial life, appears to be organized around five major substantive themes. In academic economics, however, exactly the opposite opinion prevailed for several decades because during the early twentieth century, economists became convinced that economics could best progress if a series of simplifying assumptions was made that allowed formalization of the analysis with the help of mathematics. And these assumptions usually meant that a radically nonsocial approach had to be used. In this book of industrial Sociology, one of us surveyed some of these strategies and interviewed many key proponents for these perspectives, and the reader may want to peruse some of these for an introduction to the issues in contention. Many positive things, as is clear from these interviews, can be said about each of the different perspectives. This book is part of a recent and very exciting development. To the layperson it might seem obvious enough that the industrial sociology is part of the social world and not isolated from the rest of society.
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