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- W2262398624 abstract "It is now 30 years since the publication of Burrell and Morgan‘s Sociological Paradigms. In the 1990s it was almost obligatory for Information Systems researchers to justify their methodology by declaring their position on the Burrell and Morgan matrix. This fashion has thankfully subsided, but this leaves many starting IS researchers unclear as to their philosophical position. Some cling to the hope of finding simple cause-effect relations, some launch into 'ethnographic research' unprepared for questioning their own cultural assumptions, some attempt to avoid deciding by claiming 'multi-paradigm' research. Very few embrace the final 'radical humanist' quadrant, a position that can be seen as the holy grail of responsible research, a way of avoiding making a stand, or simply crazy. In this paper we interpret the Burrell and Morgan matrix as a stage in the ongoing struggle to conceptualise cultures, societies and organisations as suitable objects for research. Since at least Hume students of the social have looked jealously at mathematics and physics as the true paradigm of knowledge, sometimes attempting exact imitation, sometimes attempting to mark out an independent but equal territory. Most recently Latour has proposed that our problem is in believing that there is such a domain as 'the social', a domain in which we can theorise about human interaction in the abstract, without needing to immerse ourselves in messy particulars. While we sympathise with Latour’s latest concerns, we feel that they are yet another emanation of 'science envy', the belief that somehow other domains such as the mathematical, the biological and the economic, have special connections with 'reality' which the social lacks. We believe that before we can 're-assemble the social' we need to overcome our fears of the demons of constructivism, relativism and solipsism, and accept the subjectivity of the particular. In this we are helped by the ideas of Marquard, Geertz, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Deleuze among others. Only then can we return to actor-network theory as a tool that we can use as we participate in the reconstruction of the mutual understanding that is the social fabric of particular organisations, a reconstruction that will lead we know not where." @default.
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- W2262398624 title "Overcoming the Fear of the Social - Moving With ANT Into Burrell and Morgan's Empty box" @default.
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