Overview
Applies sociological rigor to a work methodology common in entrepreneurial “innovation culture”
Bridges ethnography, empirical data, practice, and theory to provide critical insight into Design Thinking
Valuable not only academics in ethnography, sociology, STS, and beyond, but also for practitioners of Design Thinking (consultants, creative, designers, and coaches)
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About this book
An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking’s practice relates to the vast promises surrounding it. Through a close study of a Berlin-based innovation agency, Tim Seitz finds both mundane knowledge practices and promises of transformation. He unpacks the relationships between these discourses and practices and undertakes an exploratory movement that leads him from practice theory to pragmatism. In the course of this movement, Seitz makes design thinking understandable as a phenomenon of what Boltanski and Chiapello described as the “new spirit of capitalism”—that is, an ideological structure that incorporates criticism and therefore strengthens capitalism.
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About the author
Tim Seitz is a doctoral researcher in the DFG research training group “Innovation Society Today” at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include sociological theory, science and technology studies and ethnographic methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Sociological Reflections on Innovation Culture
Authors: Tim Seitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31715-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31714-0Published: 09 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31715-7Published: 26 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 107
Topics: Sociology of Work, Ethnography, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Knowledge - Discourse