SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elton Mayo, Victimless Crime, Hawthorne Effect

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: silva

Document Summary

Workers could be treated like machines only constraint was physical limits. Supervision gets maximum performance out of workers. Emphasizes people, communication, and participations in the process. Most successful organizations are a mix of both. The tendency to perform or perceive differently when one knows they are being observed. Deviance is behavior that violates expected rules or norms. It can be a condition, belief, or behavior. Crime is a violation of societal norms and rules written into public laws that is subject to. Occupational (professional) commits crime every day. Organized crime- the mafia or a mob. White collar one person, embezzling, tax fraud, collusion. Corporate crimes illegal acts committed by executives to benefit themselves and their companies 2 or more, embezzling, tax fraud, collusion. Transactional crime across state borders any crime that takes place across country borders international crime. Dysfunctions: tension, insecurity, erodes trust, damages confidence, and can be costly. Conformists accept goals and means (+/+)