Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
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Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
iRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementssity Bloomington 812.855-5389 arobbin@indiana.eduAbstractRob Kling's intellectual contribution is a corpus of work that exemplifies the craft of inquiry'and the social enterprise of science. He applied core sociological ideas and grounded them in evidence. His work connected theory', method, and evi Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsdence. His observations of the empirical world over more than a quarter-century led to research questions that transcended disciplinary boundaries, inRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
vigorated disciplines, transformed our thinking, and helped US develop a working vocabulary about technology and social life. He was decidedly unapoloiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements evidence to make Ills arguments. This paper examines Rob Kling’s craft of inquiry. It traces the evolution of his theorizing, methodological choices, and gathering of evidence to understand computerization movements, an inquiry that situates his analysis in an unfailingly consistent critical stance Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements towards computers and social life.Keywords:I.IntroductionRob Kling’s intellectual contribution is a corpus of work that exemplifies the craft of inquRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
iry and the social enterprise of science.1 He applied core sociological ideas and grounded them in evidence. His observations of the empirical world oiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsand helped us develop a working vocabulary about technology and social life. He was decidedly unapologetic about his eclecticism. Instead, unconstrained by disciplinary' and speciality boundaries or dominant theoretical frameworks and methodologies, he reveled in employing multiple theoretical frame Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsworks, multiple methodologies, and multiple sources of evidence to make his arguments. He contributed to the conceptual scaffolding for a domain of1’ARob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
lford (1998) writes that. "The craft of social inquiry lies somewhere between art and science. It combines the creativity and the spontaneity of an (aiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsat, "artist and scientist alike are primarily concerned with the Illumination of reality, with, in sum. the exploration of the unknown and, far from least, the interpretation of physical and human worlds. And just as the artist must be seen as concerned directly with the realm of knowledge, so must Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsthe scientist be seen in the light of what we call esthetics" (p. 10).1study he called “Social Informatics” through sustained inquiry and a ven' publiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
c record of his work.2The goal of this paper is to examine Rob Kling’s craft of inquiry. It analyzes his "action agenda,”3 the core theoretical framewiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsof method, and gathering of evidence to situate his analysis as an unfailingly consistent critical stance towards computers and social life. This analysis relies on a close reading of his most highly cited works and those papers where he extended his focus on organizational practices and a lifelong Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsmeditation on value conflicts and social choices to (he discourses of computerization and social transformation. Specifically in the context of the RoRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
b Kling Memorial Workshop, this paper examines the theoretical, methodological, and empirical origins and moral basis of Kling’s thinking about computiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsmuidzinas, 1994).Following Alford’s (1998) guide to the analysis of the craft of inquiry and the intellectual legacy of modem social theorists, I examine various “canonical” texts (hat illustrate how Kling “connected theories, methods, and evidence by paradigmatic arguments” (p. 3). Nisbet’s (1966, Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements1977) probing essays on the sociological research tradition also guide me as an analyst of Kling’s oeuvre, to illuminate what was distinct about his cRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
ontribution and how his ideas enriched our understanding of the interdependency and interactions of the social and the technical. Coser’s (1965) studyiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements, committed, critical, and reflective. And Merton (1988, 2000) reminds US of the importance of2*My colleague Deborah Shaw (personal communication) also notes that Kling's craft and his contribution to the scientific enterprise included “enthusiasm” and “charisma,” among the many attributes of the am Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsbiance that Kling created in his relationships with colleagues and graduate students, qualities that assisted in the penetration of his Ideas. He wasRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
truly an exemplar of the ideals of the scientific enterprise that we try to communicate to our students: among these, openness to Ideas and openness tiRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsge something—to further the cause of peace, of equality, of freedom, of justice—or achieve any other goal by means of your research, then you have an action agenda. An action agenda must be translated into both theoretical and empirical questions if research is to be potentially relevant to social a Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsction or social policy. Action can be taken without research, of course, but it is more likely to have the desired consequences if the actors have knoRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
wledge of historically analogous situations and the potential consequences of action" (p. 25). (Italics In the original.) Towards the end of his book.iRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsrch questions is to the cultural, economic, and political struggles taking pace in the wider society” (p. 128). An action agenda implies that there a moral basis to and that political goals animated Kling’s thought.2 favorable institutional conditions, not only a physical infrastructure but also (he Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements ••cognitive microenvironment” (p. 615) of Kling’s relationships with “trusted asssessors” (Mullins, 1973)/Finally, from among the various essays andRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
critiques of major contributors to various disciplines that 1 have read while preparing tills paper/ two essays stand out as particularly memorable aniRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementshe ways that Kling also selves as an exemplar- of how humanistic concerns and the sciences arc “brought to bear on Iris investigations of the material world through scientific inquiry" (p. 293). And Roution's (1993) essay on Paul T a/arsfeld (1993) provides me with the central argument of this paper Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements: that a “Striking feature of [Ills] work is its great unitfy] of inspiration, lire main intuitions that were to guide him throughout his intellectualRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
life were clearly articulated in his first works” (p. 1).My objective is to understand where Kling got his ideas, his intellectual debts, if you williRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements“that results from complex processes” which (io not “ordinarily reveal [their] own historical origins and context” (Alford, 1998, p. 8). What intellectual traditions are embedded and embodied by Kling’s corpus (origins of the theories he relied on; the leadingslassie writers in what fields who influ Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsenced his thinking)? What research questions did Kling ask? What empirical evidence did he utilize in his analyses of organizational contexts, the ecoRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
logy of social relations and the political order, and the metaphors and symbolic uses of computer technology in organizations —evidence that was lateriRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory:The Origins of Computerization MovementsAlice Robbin School of Library and Information Science Indiana Univers Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementssocio-technical interaction networks” (STINs) in a framework of scholarly publishing and digital libraries (Kling, 1994; Elliott & Kling, 1997; Kling & Lamb, 1996, 2003; Kling & McKim, 1999, 2000, 2001; Kling, Spector, & McKim, 2002).Put another way, 1 want to construct Kling’s intellectual biograph Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movementsy and understand the theoretical, methodological, and empirical inteller lual territories that he mapped, to identify the4'My analysis nt Kling’s workRob Kling In Search of One Good Theory The Origins of Computerization Movements
understates rhe contribution that misted assessors made to Kling's intellectual development. The current version ot this paper includes very tew nt KGọi ngay
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