LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature Review: Social Everyday Life and Organizational Form



Literature Review: Social Everyday Life and Organizational Form

Introduction

The paper discusses the literature collected on two articles namely “Delving into the whirlwind: some exploratory Notes on everyday life and gender “by Chong Eu Choong, and the “Marxist philosophy and organization studies” by Paul S. Adler. It relates the articles on the basis of the theoretical understanding of the everyday life and the organizational behavior in terms of the Marxist philosophy.

Discussion

A French philosopher Henri lefebre considers the everyday as the common ground of practices and experience. However, it has remained overlooked as an element of social existence by the field of sociology. Highmore (2002) considers the everyday life as the setting for a dynamic process that is for making the unfamiliar familiar, and for getting the accustomed to the disruption of custom. According to Highmore, everyday consist of new experiences of the routinization of the everyday life. This philosophy is related to the second articles; concept of the organization forms because the everyday understanding ranges from the road sweeper to the employee of a large organization. It involves synchronizing the daily life around the clock with the hours and minutes accompanied by the regularity of working behavior. Therefore, the everyday life uses a metaphor which resembles a whirlwind tearing out all the stands in its way. What is required is to develop a critical understanding of the everyday life and the problems associated on exploring the problems (Lefebvre, 36).

Benjamin (1999) refers to the ideas of encountering the everyday life for investigation. The assumption is that modernity has brought a new social configuration unlike anything that humanity has experienced before. The dialectic materialism proposed by Marx provides a comprehensive understanding of the social ideas and organizational forms. This philosophy combines the two concepts of social everyday ay life and the form of organizations. Dialectical materialism, the presentation itself is due to the activity of Engels to Marx's own, has traditionally been seen as taking a philosophical position of Marx and Engels against Hegelian idealism, i.e. as the result of his critique of idealism and as such, has been presented by most scholars of Marxism as the conceptual framework from which to develop historical materialism, which would be the proper scientific expression of his thought. The exhibition of dialectical materialism is largely in the works of Engels: "Anti-Duhring" (with contributions of Marx, published in 1878) and ...