TY - JOUR
T1 - the significance of meetings in an American mental health center
AU - SCHWARTZMAN, HELEN B.
PY - 1987/5
Y1 - 1987/5
N2 - Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of complex organizations. This paper uses the study of an American mental health center to examine a previously taken‐for‐granted social form in these settings, the meeting. In this way, the organization is used as a context for examining the significance of meetings in American life, and at the same time meetings are used as a context for understanding events within a specific organization. [complex organizations, alternative organizations, meetings, symbolic analysis, decision contexts, urban America] 1987 American Anthropological Association
AB - Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of complex organizations. This paper uses the study of an American mental health center to examine a previously taken‐for‐granted social form in these settings, the meeting. In this way, the organization is used as a context for examining the significance of meetings in American life, and at the same time meetings are used as a context for understanding events within a specific organization. [complex organizations, alternative organizations, meetings, symbolic analysis, decision contexts, urban America] 1987 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/ae.1987.14.2.02a00060
DO - 10.1525/ae.1987.14.2.02a00060
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981927590
VL - 14
SP - 271
EP - 294
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
SN - 0094-0496
IS - 2
ER -