81. The Department Of Sociology And Anthropology Christian communities in Jerusalem. Prof. Eyal BenAri, Society and culturein Japan; The anthropology and sociology of organizations and bureaucracies; http://sociology.huji.ac.il/eng-staff.html

Updated: 19/11/03 The department's academic staff their areas of research Click here for a list sorted by research areas Prof. Uri Almagor Tribal societies Anthropological theory The history of anthropology Anthropology and aesthetics Dr. Gideon Aran The sociology of religion Zealotry: religious and political extremism Ideological violence Messianism Religions and religious orders Israeli society: culture and political culture Prof. Victor Azarya State-society relations in Africa Nomadic societies and their relationship with the state - a comparative perspective Christian communities in Jerusalem Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari Society and culture in Japan The anthropology and sociology of organizations and bureaucracies Social and cultural aspects of the Israeli Defense Forces Social and cultural aspects of the military Dr. Aaron Benavot The sociology of education and curricula The sociology of development Political sociology Third world research Environmental sociology The Israeli education system: historical development, and comparative perspectives

82. Sociology 6330 Seminar Comparative Organizational Analysis (3) Major sociologicaltheories on comparative study of bureaucratic organizations. http://www.acs.utah.edu/gencatalog/crsdesc/soc.html

University of Utah Sociology SOC Course Descriptions Home Feedback University of Utah General Catalog 2004-2005 Posted March 25, 2004 This Web document is updated twice a year, on or about the first day of registration for Fall and Spring semesters. Introduction to Sociology (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration. Nature and scope of sociology, including systematic treatment of group life, social institutions, social problems, social change, and social control. Current Social Problems in America (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration. Application of sociology to the study of social problems in contemporary society. Social Psychology (3) Prerequisite: SOC 1010. Problems of identification and strain involved in participation of persons in groups. Social Structure and Change (3) Prerequisite: SOC 1010. Theoretical and empirical studies of social organization; social institutions, their interrelationships and dynamics of structural change. Research Methods (3) Prerequisite: SOC 1010.

83. Birkbeck, University Of London - School Of Politics And Sociology - School Event Professor John Huber, University of Princeton, Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation,and Professor Peter John, School of Politics and sociology, Birkbeck, A http://www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/events/ESRC_workshop_4.php

Mon/7/06/2004 Workshop 4 Back to ESRC Research Seminars Workshop 4: Issues in New Public Management Organiser: Peter John Venue: School of Public Policy, UCL Date: 26 March 2004 This workshop examines applications of the principal-agent model to questions in contemporary public policy and management, which is probably the area of study where the model has been most consistently applied over the last twenty years. In particular, the p-a model seeks to further academic understanding of bureaucratic behaviour, dealing with the reality of discretion and the practical limits to the political control of administrative behaviour, issues that have risen to prominence with the rise of the New Public Management that has fragmented bureaucracies and has highlighted the self-interested behaviour of bureaucrats. The series has a presenter from one of the pioneers of this form of analysis, Terry Moe, who seeks to explore how agents can at times have powers over the principals, taking US education policy as his example. Moving to the UK, there is a paper examining principal agent problems in the UK system of agencies from Oliver James. Showing how this field of research has itself developed, other papers examine the interface between bureaucratic behaviour and other aspects of the political system: Moe on voting behaviour, Huber on the legislature and the bureaucracy, and Dowding and Dewan on ministerial accountability. Programme Professor Terry Moe, Hoover Institute, Stanford, 'Political Control and the Power of the Agent'

84. Sociology 3523 - Sociology Of Knowledge Rather than being a specialized area of sociology, the sociology of knowledge andexpertise, especially by state and corporate bureaucracies, the professionals http://www.stthomasu.ca/academic/soci/weeks/3523.htm

Sociology 3523 SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE (Peter Weeks, Spring 2003) Course Description: This course is concerned with the social organization of knowledge — in terms of ‘information', ‘facts', science, ideology, common-sense and popular culture. For our purposes, ‘knowledge' refers to sets of ideas accepted by a social group or society in terms of what is real for them. Rather than being a specialized area of sociology, the sociology of knowledge deals with the broad, underlying questions about the extent and limits of social influences on people's lives and the social-cultural foundations of our knowledge of the world. Basically, we can divide the approaches to this field between "the social determination of knowledge" (the ways in which social organization influences people's beliefs and ideas) and "the social construction of reality" (that social reality is produced and communicated, and that knowledge itself shapes social organization). In the sociology of knowledge, we can draw on these major sociological traditions:

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