Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life

The present study is an interdisciplinary survey to identify the sociological basis of Aviation technologies as per four well-known sociological paradigms: Functionalism, Interpretivism, Humanism and Structuralism. First of all, the main technologies of aviation industry will be listed with a preliminary introduction to sociological paradigms. The main idea of the present study is to propose a conceptual framework for the classification and interpretation of aviation industry technologies philosophically, sociologically and technologically; on the basis of a matrix which is created by the integration of technological criteria in Perrow’s typology with that of Burrell and Morgan’s sociological paradigms. As per results of a questionnaire with the sample of 15 experts, aviation technologies location in each matrix had been identified and finally four sets of technologies had been determined: Functional technologies, Interpretive technologies, Humanistic technologies and Structural technologies. At the end, suggestions also have been proposed.