Work: Marxist and Systems-Theoretical Approaches

Stefan Kühl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and a senior consultant for Metaplan — a consulting firm based in Princeton, Versailles, Hamburg, Shanghai and Singapore. He is the author of Organizations: A Systems Approach; When the Monkeys Run the Zoo: The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies; The Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy; The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism; For the Betterment of the Race: The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene; and Ordinary Organizations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust.

• 1. Work – Theoretical Perspectives 2. Primacy of Economy vs. Functional Differentiation: The Debate on the Form of Modern Society 3. Business vs. Organization: Subsumising the Company to the Logic of Profit Maximization or Stressing the Self-Logic of the Organization 4. Worker Consciousness vs. Worker Essence as a Role: Class as a Binding Link between Society and the Individual 5. In Favor of a Renaissance of Grand Theories