SOCY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ideal Type, Bounded Rationality, Prosumer
8 Jan 2017
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Socy100 lectures notes chapter 5 (organization, societies, and the. Interest is taken in understanding how our lives frame our relationship with different organizations. In the micro-macro continuum, organizations and societies are based in the macro-level structures side. Organizations: collectives that are purposely constructed to achieve particular things, only exist with members (social entities, ex. ) Bureaucracies: highly rational and efficient organizations, we(cid:271)er"s (cid:373)ost fa(cid:373)ous idea t(cid:455)pe (cid:449)as (cid:271)ureau(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455) Ideal type- methodological tool used to study the real world of bureaucracies as a kind of organization. Weber saw it as a defining characteristic of modern western society. Weber believed it was the best form of administration for large societies (most efficient and pragmatic to get the job done: characteristics. Tools given to people who hold positions. Offices stay part of the organization after people leave. Continuous series of offices or positions: authority structures. Grounded in rules that legitimate the office.
