Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems

John Mingers is Professor of OR and Information Systems and Director of Research at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK.

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John Mingers, Leslie Willcocks

Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems

Name: Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems
Author: John Mingers

Gebonden Engels 2004 1e druk 9780470851173

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This volume aims to widen the imagination of information systems researchers in addressing questions about fundamental relationships between philosophy, social theory and technology.

Each chapter is written by an expert/experts in both IS and the particular line of thinking under review. Lee provides a ground clearing introduction to the philosophy of science. Markus critically appraises the promise that still lies within functionalism and neo-functionalism. Introna and Ilharco discuss Husserl's and Heidegger's phenomenology in relation to 'the screen'.

Myers, Probert, and Klein and Huynh reveal the abiding applicability of hermeneutics, Adorno's and Habermas's critical social theory respectively. Willcocks details the evolution of Foucault's mode of thinking and its usefulness, including essential concepts of power/knowledge, genealogy, the disciplinary society and technology.

Jones and colleagues reconsider structuration theory, and provide considerable insight into Giddens' later thinking and its role in IS. Howcroft and her co-authors focus on the social shaping of technology approaches, including actor network theory, while Mingers brings critical realism into play suggesting that it can provide an underlying philosophy for information systems.

Finally, Merali details and assesses an area strangely neglected by IS researchers, namely complexity theory. Overall the book provides a rich, insightful and critical set of fresh, key contributions to the study of technology and information systems.

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ISBN13:9780470851173

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:455

Uitgever:John Wiley & Sons

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:20-6-2004

Hoofdrubriek:IT-management / ICT

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Over John Mingers

John Mingers is Professor of OR and Information Systems and Director of Research at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. His research interests include the use of systems methodologies in problem situations, particularly the mixing of different methodologies within an intervention (multimethodology); the development of critical realism as a philosophy for information systems; the development of theory concerning the nature of information and meaning; and autopoiesis and its applications. He has published several books, including Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis and Information Systems: An Emerging Discipline? (with Professor Frank Stowell).

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List of Contributors.
Series Preface.
Preface.

1. Thinking about Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems (Allen S. Lee).
2. Fit for Function: Functionalism, Neofunctionalism and Information Systems (M. Lynne Markus).
3. Phenomenology, Screens, and the World: A Journey with Husserl and Heidegger into Phenomenology (Lucas D. Introna and Fernando M. Ilharco).
4. Hermeneutics in Information Systems Research (Michael D. Myers).
5. Adorno: A Critical Theory for IS Research (Stephen K. Probert).
6. The Critical Social Theory of J ¨ urgen Habermas and its Implications for IS Research (Heinz K. Klein and Minh Q. Huynh).
7. Foucault, Power/Knowledge and Information Systems: Reconstructing the Present (Leslie P. Willcocks).
8. Structuration Theory and Information Systems: A Critical Reappraisal (Matthew Jones, Wanda Orlikowski and Kamal Munir).
9. WhatWe May Learn from the Social Shaping of Technology Approach (Debra Howcroft, Nathalie Mitev and Melanie Wilson).
10. Re-establishing the Real: Critical Realism and Information Systems (John Mingers).
11. Complexity and Information Systems (Yasmin Merali).

Index.