Negotiated order explained

Negotiated order is an approach in sociology that is interested in how meaning is created and maintained in organizations. It has a particular focus on human interactions.

See also

• Anselm Strauss
• George Herbert Mead
• Erving Goffman

Sources

• Maines, David R., & Joy Charlton. (1985). Negotiated Order Approach to the Analysis of Social Organization. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Supplement 1, 271–308.
• Reed, Michael. (1991). The Sociology of Organizations: Themes, Perspectives, Prospects. Hempel Hempstead, 83–92.
• Regan, Thomas G. (1984). Some Limits to the Hospital as Negotiated Order. Social Science and Medicine 18, 243–249.
• Strauss, Anselm. (1978). Negotiations: Varieties, Processes, Contexts, and Social Order. San Francisco, 105–141.
• Strauss, Anselm, et al. (1994). The Hospital and Its Negotiated Order. In Eliot Freidson (Ed.), The Hospital in Modern Society. New York, 147–169.