SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Modern Problems, Ideal Type, High Tech

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

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Organization: a group with a well-defined membership of persons, gathered under a definite set of authority relations, engaging in collective action to achieve a common purpose (cf. ant colonies, beehives) (e. g. the american corporation) Formal organizations are everywhere, a ubiquitous feature of modern social life (we work for them, are educated in them, live in them, are policed by them, etc. ) Organizations are collective, yet in some legal and practical sense, unitary actors. (usually) rationally designed to achieve its objectives, often by means of explicit. Or, to put it differently, an organization, like many machines, is an arrangement. Rendering complex tasks into a series of simple tasks. Modern problems could not be managed without formal organizations (e. g. , of tasks or routines sensibly ordered to accomplish a goal rules, regulations, and procedures . The classic organizational form: bureaucracy (despite earlier examples like the catholic church) Max weber: bureaucracy as the definitive organizational form of modernity.