The sociological view and organization theory

The aim of our contribution is to present a review, albeit partial, of the prevailing sociological approaches and topics concerning organization theory. We focused on two of the main American journals of sociology: the American Journal of Sociology (AJS, the official journal of the American Sociological Association) and the American Sociological Review (ASR). We focused our analysis on articles published between 2000 to 2015.For the analysis of the selected articles we used a template considering authors’ affiliation, main subjects, methodology, approach, references to Thompson’s work. In the paper we present a qualitative description of prevailing approaches and topics, discuss the cross fertilization between general sociological theory and organization studies and the neglected connections with Thompson.