SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Job Satisfaction, George Ritzer, Deindustrialization
22 Mar 2016
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A large organization structured hieratically to carry out specific function to make it more efficient. Banks: how are we shaped by bureaucracy. We rely on it > can"t function without it. There are costs to the pervasiveness of bureaucracy: take up a lot of our time, make us conform, we panic without the structured society, surpassing creativity, physically and emotionally draining. Economic production processes were slowly removed from the home. Rise of the industrial city and the working class (proletariat) Factory system brought the introduction of labour for wages and mechanizes methods of production. Efforts to make workers more efficient led to the development of a technique called scientific management (also known as taylorism) The main proponent of scientific management was fredric w. taylor (1856 1915) March 21st 2016: scientific management seeks to use research and formal principles to recognize the labour process to increase efficiency and productivity, his scientific management involved a series of specific steps.
