Emotions in Command: Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution

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This book is part of a quest for a general theory of organizations valid in all cultures. Central to Frank Salter's investigation is the question of social power: why people obey their superiors. His approach is to locate the nature of organizational power in the behavioral details of hierarchical interactions in the institutional settings in which they occur.

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Preface	p. xxiii
Introduction to the Transaction Edition	p. xxvii
An introduction to organizational ethology and some simple hypotheses of command	p. 1
Command and organizational ethology	p. 1
A review of ethological theories of organization	p. 6
Analogy and homology in infrastructure theory	p. 18
Sociobiology contra infrastructure theory?	p. 19
Cultural evolution contra infrastructure theory?	p. 22
Command behaviour - a link between macro-structure and micro-process	p. 23
Conclusion and summary of hypotheses	p. 26
Notes on the book's layout	p. 26
The analysis of command and power in the social sciences: the roles of dominance and affiliation	p. 28
Introduction	p. 28
Command in philosophy	p. 29
Command in non-human species	p. 32
Command in pre- and early history	p. 33
Command in economics	p. 35
Command in sociology	p. 39
Compatibility of sociological and evolutionary theories of social control	p. 39
Sociology of control in organizations	p. 46
Sociological variations on the theme of coercion	p. 48
Sociological descriptions of command behaviour	p. 58
Command in anthropology	p. 63
Command in sociolinguistics	p. 71
Commands from children	p. 71
Placing command in sociolinguistic context - universals of politeness	p. 76
Empirical studies of polite directives	p. 79
Command in psychology	p. 87
Is there a command-type personality?	p. 88
The psychological study of obedience	p. 89
Socialization for obedience in schools	p. 95
Other psychological research relevant to command	p. 97
Synthetic fields of research	p. 99
Command in organization theory	p. 99
Leadership	p. 102
Assertiveness	p. 105
Summary and conclusion	p. 107
Aspects of the evolution and physiology of human dominance and affiliation	p. 112
Introduction	p. 112
Observations of domestic dominance	p. 115
An ethological interpretation - introducing basic concepts	p. 115
The concept of innateness	p. 118
Cross-species comparison	p. 120
Dominance and fitness	p. 123
Criticisms of dominance theory	p. 127
Hormones and developmental sex differences	p. 128
Dominance and affiliation in play	p. 130
Contributions from behavioural genetics and neuroethology - a summary	p. 131
Alcohol and aggression	p. 132
Leadership - an accommodation of dominance and affiliation	p. 133
Summary	p. 134
Interpersonal signals of dominance and affiliation	p. 136
Introduction	p. 136
Felt and false emotional expression	p. 137
Emotions coordinate physiology, psychology, and behaviour	p. 141
Mood induction	p. 142
Meaning depends on context	p. 143
Emotions in the context of rank	p. 144
Catalogue of interpersonal signals	p. 145
Limitations of the catalogue	p. 151
Data supporting the catalogue	p. 152
Affiliative displays - face, gaze, posture, and movement	p. 152
Agonistic displays - face, gaze, posture, and movement	p. 156
Further dominance and affiliative behaviours	p. 161
Summary and vignette retold	p. 168
Gestalt methods: naturalistic, observational, and qualitative	p. 170
Introduction to the ethological method	p. 170
Applying ethological method to field studies of organizations	p. 173
Behavioural categories and interpretation	p. 176
Reliability	p. 178
Ethology of ethologists	p. 179
Comparison of gestalt ethology with sociology and cultural anthropology	p. 181
Limitations	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 185
The military parade ground command as initial specimen	p. 186
Subordination function of drill	p. 186
Commands are segmented	p. 187
Limitations of commands in the audio channel	p. 190
Dominance and affiliation in military and civilian parades	p. 190
The inefficiency and agonism of commands issued by nightclub doormen	p. 194
Introduction	p. 194
Observational conditions	p. 195
Doormen are supported by almost no infrastructure	p. 195
Lack of institutional support	p. 195
Intimidating characteristics of doormen	p. 197
The command sequence	p. 199
Dominance and affiliative behaviour at a nightclub entrance	p. 200
Distribution of affect between doormen and patrons	p. 200
Doormen were the centre of attention	p. 208
Doormen's verbal and conversational dominance	p. 210
Doormen used appeasements with commands	p. 211
Summary and conclusion	p. 214
Artistic directors' commands in rehearsals	p. 217
Introduction and observational conditions	p. 217
Dominance infrastructures of artistic companies	p. 223
The command sequence and its variations in rehearsals	p. 226
Directors' attention-getting behaviour	p. 226
Task description	p. 227
Timing of execution	p. 229
Monitoring performances in rehearsals	p. 231
Delegation and joint command	p. 233
Dominance and affiliative behaviour in rehearsals	p. 234
Distribution of affect between directors and artistes	p. 234
Directors dominate attention	p. 236
Directors' control of speaking turns	p. 241
Command and appeasement in rehearsals	p. 245
Summary and conclusion	p. 249
Courtroom commands	p. 251
Introduction and literature review	p. 251
Social psychological research	p. 252
Sociology and infrastructure theory	p. 256
Observational conditions	p. 261
The courtroom dominance infrastructure	p. 262
Sanctioned rules of court procedure	p. 262
Unarmed court attendants and armed police	p. 264
The structuring of attention in courts	p. 266
Doors and territories in courts	p. 267
Deference shown judges	p. 268
Waiting and punctuality at court	p. 269
Dress in court	p. 269
Impressiveness of court buildings	p. 270
Courts subordinate the public	p. 270
Origins of the law court infrastructure	p. 271
The command sequence in law courts	p. 273
The task description predominated	p. 273
Threats and rebukes in court commands	p. 276
Delegation in courts	p. 277
Court attendants maintain routine attention	p. 278
Conclusion of command sequence	p. 279
Dominance and affiliative behaviour in law courts	p. 279
Distribution of affect in law courts	p. 279
Judges dominate attention	p. 288
Judges' control of speaking turns	p. 291
Command and appeasement in courts	p. 297
Summary and conclusion	p. 302
Chairmen's command of meeting procedure: the challenge of aggression	p. 306
Introduction	p. 306
Observational conditions in meetings	p. 310
Meeting backgrounds and characteristics	p. 313
Dominance infrastructures of meetings	p. 318
Rules of procedure	p. 318
Unarmed meeting attendants and armed police	p. 320
The structuring of attention in meetings	p. 320
Doors and territories of meetings	p. 321
Rule-based deference to chairmen	p. 322
Waiting and punctuality in meetings	p. 326
Dress in meetings	p. 326
Meeting venue size, decoration, and symbolism	p. 327
Some meetings subordinated spectators	p. 333
The command sequence in meetings	p. 334
Chairmen's commands were usually abbreviated	p. 334
Monitoring of procedural commands and rules	p. 335
Delegation in meetings	p. 336
Dominance and affiliative signals involving chairmen	p. 338
Distribution of affect in meetings	p. 338
Holding visual attention was sometimes difficult for chairmen	p. 367
Chairmen's control of speaking turns	p. 368
Command and appeasement in meetings	p. 373
Summary and discussion	p. 378
Command in government agencies: towards a reductive analysis of bureaucracy	p. 384
Introduction	p. 384
Observation sites	p. 385
Observational conditions	p. 386
Dominance infrastructures of three bureaucracies	p. 386
The command sequence in bureaucracies	p. 390
Dominance and affiliative signals in three bureaucracies	p. 390
Distribution of affect in bureaucracies	p. 390
Managers compromised visibility for privacy	p. 398
Speaking turns in manager-subordinate dyads	p. 399
Command and appeasement in bureaucracies	p. 399
Conclusion - towards a reductive analysis	p. 401
Summary and implications	p. 405
The overall argument	p. 405
Results	p. 407
Comparison of dominance infrastructures	p. 407
Commands were segmented	p. 411
Dominance and affiliative signals involving commanders	p. 414
Implications and speculations	p. 446
Some candidate universals	p. 446
Infrastructures are culturally evolved	p. 446
Organizational induction-bridging the instrumental-expressive gap	p. 447
A behavioural typology of control techniques	p. 453
Future research	p. 455
Controlling for personal style	p. 457
Training and selection as infrastructure elements	p. 459
Distinguishing the infrastructure from its effects	p. 460
Isolating elements of the court infrastructure	p. 461
Conclusion	p. 466
References	p. 469
Author Index	p. 505
Subject Index	p. 513
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