SOC 2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Office Management, Social Capital, Wield

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2312
• Professor: sawan

Document Summary

What else can social actors use as means of acquiring power besides the material, cultural, and social capital that they possess? (s&r) Institutions set the bounds of social interactions, the rules" and guidelines that govern the manner in which social relations unfold, and by delimiting the choices of action available to people at any given time and place . From a marxist perspective, dominated and used by owning classes to maintain class structure. Institutionalist approach argue that they order people"s behaviour in enduring ad relatively predictable ways even on those who wield material, cultural or social power. Individual advantage does not give a person licence to ignore the institutions ordering a society . Often, they are long-lasting and durable though examples of significant changes in social institutions throughout history: example: industrialization and the workplace, family institutions. Officials loyalty determined through impersonal and functional purposes . Bureaucratic organization as supreme over pre-modern methods of organization.