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The Meeting

Gatherings in Organizations and Communities

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  • © 1989

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  1. Helen B. Schwartzman

    1. Department of Anthropology and Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Meetings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 3-12

    3. Occasions and Gatherings

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 13-45

    4. Meetings as Tools/Meetings as Topics

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 47-86

  3. The Meeting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. An Organized Anarchy

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 89-114

    3. Constructing a Meeting

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 115-143

    4. Meetings, Time, and Attention

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 145-172

    5. History, Boundaries, and Ideological Conflict

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 173-206

    6. Decisions and Power

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 207-242

    7. Expressions and Emotions

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 243-269

  4. Meetings: Comparisons and Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Meetings, Culture, and Society

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 273-307

    3. The Meeting

      • Helen B. Schwartzman
      Pages 309-314

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 315-344
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About this book

In writing this book I discovered that everyone I talked to had his or her own theory about meetings, and yet there is no theory of meetings in the research literature. This makes writing about this subject both excit­ ing and hazardous. It is always exciting to examine the significance of something that has been ignored, but it is hazardous to write about something that everyone already thinks they understand. Without re­ course to the legitimacy of a research tradition, readers are likely to evaluate this study based on their own theory. I have tried to take this into account by discussing what might be referred to as American folk theory about meetings (see particularly Chapter 3), and also by juxtapos­ ing my own research in an American organization with research in traditional or non-Western societies as conducted by anthropologists. This juxtaposition throws into relief some of the important differences as well as similarities in views of meetings as well as the form of meetings across cultures. It is also the only way that I know to examine how and when one's cultural context is affecting one's theoretical constructions. If this book is successful, it will challenge what I believe is the most common interpretation of meetings found in American society, that is, that meetings are a blank-slate phenomenon useful as a tool for such functions as making decisions, solving problems, and resolving con­ flicts, but having no impact on behavior in and of themselves.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology and Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Helen B. Schwartzman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Meeting

  • Book Subtitle: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities

  • Authors: Helen B. Schwartzman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0885-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43133-3Published: 31 May 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0887-2Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0885-8Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 344

  • Topics: Archaeology, Sociology, general

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