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This article elaborates the process of decision making in organizational environments characterized by disciplined improvisation. Building on an ethnography of forecasting operations at the National Weather Service, it introduces “collage” as a mediating concept between information bricolage and the forging of a decision. The concept of collage serves to (1) heuristically frame decision making as...
Drawing on fieldwork at a forecasting office of the National Weather Service, this paper analyzes the sociocognitive organization of meteorological perception and expertise via the notion of “screenwork” in the hopes that it may provide a common constructivist ground on which sociologists and neuroscientists will be able to comfortably study visual perception at work. Three key intersecting areas...
This article examines patterns of joint membership in ASA sections and analyzes the resulting section clusters in order to ultimately assess the present state of the disci-pline and unearth the organizational structure underlying intellectual and profes-sional currents. Previous empirical findings regarding the structure of sociology in the 1980s are largely confirmed for sociology in the 1990s. Despite...
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