With this inclusive axiology of practice view, human actors appear to be regaining their territories within organizations. While it is questionable if they are liberated from 'iron cage' of bureaucracy, human actors' capabilities to make sense of events and phenomena, things, fellow actors, and self seem to be acquiring realistic and critical positions from which more accurate explanations about organizational reality can be presented. This thesis attempts to push a step further such movements towards the realistic manner of centering of human actors in the analyses of organizational phenomena.
With regard to the word 'realistic', I should clarify my position. Admitting possible criticisms of determinism, naturalism, or essentialism, I mean by 'realistic' that capabilities of human actors are constrained by nature; and thus, analyses of processes of organizing should firmly be predicated in such immutable and inherited natural capabilities of them. Among such innate capabilities, those of reasoning and socializing are seen to be originating in nature as well as those of feeling and acting. Put differently, human beings are regarded as naturally evaluative and social beings as well as sentient and mobile beings; and thus, practices they engage need to be understood to be taking place in nature. At the same time, however, to subscribe also to 'realistic' in conventional terms, this thesis does not focus on individual actor's capabilities in isolation from other actors including non-human entities. As has just been mentioned, human beings are to be seen as naturally social beings; thus, their natural capabilities deserve analyses in practical field of organizations only if positioned in relationships with others.
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