SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Oligarchy, Scientific Management, Rationality

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Institutional completeness (with large groups) = ability of larger groups to meet their members" needs from within their own boundaries separation or less) women include more relatives, men more co-workers . Networks = web a weak social ties (most people are connected by 6 degrees of. Formal organization = large secondary groups organized to achieve their goals efficiently work for regular paycheck, join by choice . Normative organizations (community service, political party, religious organization) join to pursue goal, voluntary. Coercive organizations involuntary memberships, special physical features, isolate patients/inmates to radically change behaviour . Bureaucracy = an organized model rationally designed to perform tasks efficiently . Organizational environment = factors outside an organization that affects its operation (technology, economic trends, current events) . Bureaucratic realism = tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves . Oligarchy = the rule of the many by the few .