Tradition, tension, and transformation: a structuration analysis of a game warden service in transition |
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Authors: | John Sherblom Lisa Ker nen Lesley Withers |
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Institution: |
a Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine.
b Rhetoric of science at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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Abstract: | Independence and competence define the traditional characteristics of a game warden. External pressure to transform the game warden service into a more culturally and ethnically diverse state law enforcement agency, however, creates tensions surrounding these characteristics in the organization's structurationally defined agency and reflexivity of law enforcement; duality of structure in office memos and citation counts; social integration and institutional reproduction of law enforcement training, use of decoys, and search and seizure procedures; and time-space distanciation of working a 40-hour week or having complete responsibility for a territory. The present study examined how these tensions interact with the traditional assumptions of independence and competence to transform the meaning of these characteristics, and of the game warden service itself. |
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Keywords: | Agency Change Competence Distanciation Duality Of Structure Game Warden Independence Institutional Reproduction Reflexivity Social Integration Structuration Tradition Transformation |
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