SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Diversity Training, Nova, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Lecture 7: organizational culture: organizational culture, cultivating work cultures, workers cultivating culture, organizations in cultural context, mobilizing masculinity in nursing. Workplaces have a distinct culture that shapes our understanding and identities of ourselves as workers in the workplace. Many of the conference rooms have names from pop culture. Not unlike a dormitory, which is area where facebook founders thought up of the idea. The workplace also has a lot of gaming systems and entertainment activities available. Facebook trying to cultivate organizational culture that is laidback, fast-paced, modern. Apple also has a more upscale work environment than facebook as they have food places and more entertainment options as well as great benefits for their employees. Arlie hochschild: the managed heart - cultivating work cultures. Workplaces need to cultivate a work environment through a combination of recruitment, socialization, rituals and model actors. Sociologically we can think of feeling rules as cultural scripts about emotions.
