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MULTI-LEVEL NETWORKS OF INFORMAL STRUCTURES THE POTENTIAL HIDDEN BETWEEN TASKS, ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI1
Structures, tasks, actions
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023, Publication date: 31 March 2023
Keywords: network of informal structures, network society, symbolic interactionism, sociology of everyday life, trust, extrapolation, bridging relationships, control and monitoring, self-reflection, self-awareness
Abstract The issue of multi-level networks of informal structures is relatively new in sociological, psychological and economic literature. The difficulty of learning about this subject of research results not only from the complexity and situational character of interactions at the micro-social level, but also from the dynamic changes that take place at the meso- and macro-social level, which result from the transition from the modernist to the postmodern stage under the influence of social, political, cultural and institutional factors. - organizational. Therefore, the research goal is an attempt to conceptualize, constructivize and model the network of informal structures with particular emphasis on actively interacting subjects, the subject of research and the context of interactions that take place in time and social space within, on the border and between them. The theoretical framework of the research, which made it possible to place the issues under consideration in the network of informal structures, was the concept of network society by M. Castells, the constructivist concept of A. Schütz, public administration by P. Modzelewski and K. Opolski, network organizational structures by D. Krackhard and J. Hanson, interaction rituals by R. Collins, organizational conflicts by Z. Rumel-Syski, interpersonal relations at the micro-social level by R.B. Adler, L.B. Rosenfeld, R.F. Proctor and the sociology of everyday life by E. Goffman, P. Sztompka and M. Bogunia-Borowska. It was hypothesized that the knowledge gathered and selected so far about networks of informal structures authorizes the conclusion that in the near future it will be able to be used to develop more precise models and tools for measuring the functioning of informal network structures with the use of artificial intelligence.
Wydział Socjologii i Pedagogiki Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie , Polska
ORCID: 0000-0003-2306-3066
E-mail: wlodzimierz_chojnacki@gmail.com