Symbolic Power and Organizational Culture

Hallett, Tim

doi:10.1111/1467-9558.00181

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Symbolic Power and Organizational Culture

Hallett, Tim·2003·Sociological Theory

DOI 10.1111/1467-9558.00181

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With the recent wave of corporate scandals, organizational culture has regained relevance in politics and the media. However, to acquire enduring utility, the concept needs an overhaul to overcome the weaknesses of earlier approaches. As such, this paper reconceptualizes organizational culture as a negotiated order (Strauss 1978) that emerges through interactions between participants, an order influenced by those with the symbolic power to define the situation. I stress the complementary contributions of theorists of practice (Bourdieu and Swidler) and theorists of interaction (Goffman and Strauss), building upward from practice into interaction, symbolic power, and the negotiated order. Using data from initial reports on the fall of Arthur Andersen and Co., I compare this symbolic power approach to other approaches (culture as subjective beliefs and values or as context/public meaning). The symbolic power model has five virtues: an empirically observable object of study; the capacity to explain conflict and integration; the ability to explain stability and change; causal efficacy; and links between the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels of analysis. Though this paper focuses on organizational culture, the symbolic power model provides theoretical leverage for understanding many situated contexts.

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Authors: Hallett, T.
Affiliations: Indiana University (US)
Corresponding author: Hallett, Tim
ORCID: Hallett, Tim
Venue: Sociological Theory
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2003-06
Volume: 21
Issue: 2
Pages: 128-149
ISSN: 0735-2751 (ISSN-L)
1467-9558
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9558.00181
OpenAlex: W2079622963
Cited by: 249
References: 98
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 18 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 11
FWCI: 9.30
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Sociological Theory (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
Keywords: organizational culture, symbolic power, negotiated order, corporate scandals, Arthur Andersen, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Strauss, practice theory, interaction theory, situated context

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