Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict

Evidence

Neuloh and his associates saw the factory as a convivium' and separated life processes’ there from `work processes’. They wanted those working in the factory to be seen by sociologists primarily as people engaged in collaborationmore or less in the same sense as the informal groups whose important social role had been discovered by the American sociologist Elton Mayo. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2095

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the contrast between Neuloh’s ‘convivium’ framing and the conflict-oriented approach of the Frankfurt School.
• XREF: connects to: Business-ideology sociology reframed the factory as collaborative convivium — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2095; A Frankfurt sociologist argued industrialization is a misnomer for class struggle — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1681; Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The Mannesmann study avoided business ideology despite not enlightening workers #exemplifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2095
• Capitalist rationalization attempts to co-opt worker militancy through co-operative management schemes #complicates (0.78)
• Market-centered accounts of capitalism function as ideology masking production #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 475
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 490
• The Fascist corporate state aimed to neutralize class conflict generated by industrialization #corroborates (0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2472