The organizations in question

Where begins and where ended the sociology of the organizations? It is a question of analyzing simply these organized groups that constitute the companies, the administrations or the associations, which number and size have not stopped growing along the 20th century and of the beginning of the 21 th century, or it is a question of developing a reflection on the mechanisms of cooperation and of collective action and, thereby, to help to think the social organization about a more wide sense? In fact, any social life exists without organizations and institutions. In this aspect, to understand the rules and logics of the functioning of the collective life and of the forms of cooperation constitutes the object of the sociology of the organizations. The analysis of the organizations is crossed by some questions appellants. This article tries precisely to analyze four of these fundamental questions.