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Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration : Contradiction and Reconciliation Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring

Krystal Laryea
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Sociologists have long thought of the integration of people in communities – social integration – and hierarchical social systems – systemic integration – as contradictory goals. What strategies allow organizations to reconcile social and systemic integration? We examine this question through 40 in-depth, longitudinal interviews with leaders of nonprofit organizations that engage in the dual pursuit of social and systemic integration. Two processes reveal how the internal structure of organizations often mirrors the ways in which organizations are embedded in their local environments. When organizations engage in loose demographic coupling, relegating those who “match” the community to the work of social integration, they produce internal inequalities and justify them by claiming community building as sacred work. When engaging in community anchoring, organizations challenge internal and external inequalities simultaneously, but this process comes with costs. Our findings contribute to a constructivist understanding of community, the mechanisms by which organizations produce inequalities, and a place-based conception of organizations as embedded in community.
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hal-04717623 , version 1 (02-10-2024)

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Krystal Laryea, Christof Brandtner. Organizations as Drivers of Social and Systemic Integration : Contradiction and Reconciliation Through Loose Demographic Coupling and Community Anchoring. Sociological Thinking in Contemporary Organizational Scholarship, Emerald, 177-200 p., 2024. ⟨hal-04717623⟩

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