Work in traditional and modern society

Udy, Stanley H., Jr.

Work in traditional and modern society

Prentice-Hall • Englewood Cliffs, NJ • Published In 1970 • Pages: 134 •

By Udy, Stanley H., Jr.

Hypothesis

"With preindustrial social development comes a progressive decline in the prevalence of production determined work organization, and a progressive increase in the prevalence of socially determined work organization" (35-36)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of raw scores	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Social Complexity	`UNKNOWN`	Territorial Organization
Type Of Work Organization	`UNKNOWN`	Labor

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.	1970	"Social development . . . results independently in decreased rationality for production determined and political forms and increased rationality for familial and contractual forms" (56)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.	1970	"Production determined organizations tend to be temporary, and socially determined organizations tend to be permanent" (36)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.	1970	". . . contractual agreements often seem to limit the social content of work roles. Political organizations . . . do so less. . . . Production determined forms are just as likely to be rationally organized as are contractual form" (54)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.	1970	"Production determined . . . organizations have marked tendencies toward rationality even . . . in the absence of any technological necessity for them to be so . . ." (55)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.	1970	Production determined organizations possess the exact number of authority levels required by the technology. Socially determined organizations possess more levels of authority than technologically necessary, and hence are inefficient (49)	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author

Work in traditional and modern society

Prentice-Hall • Englewood Cliffs, NJ • Published In 1970 • Pages: 134 • Cite

By Udy, Stanley H., Jr.

Hypothesis

Test

Variables

Related Hypotheses

Prentice-Hall • Englewood Cliffs, NJ • Published In 1970 • Pages: 134 •