SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Psychology, Homophily, Centrality
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Social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals. We can do things together that we can"t do alone. People bring together resources to meet goals or to provide services. Organizations are a dominant characteristic of modern society: discovery, socialization, resocialization (mental hospitals, production/distribution, provision of services, protection (police, preservation of culture (churches, communication, recreation (sports) Collective action: extensions of ourselves: achieve goals we could not achieve alone, collective actors: natural vs. juridical persons, unintended consequences: manifest vs. latent functions (intended vs. Over conformity can lead to stress and over development. Social ills: organizations have power, rationalization, alienation. In order to operate, organizations must: define goals, induce cooperation, dispense products/services, select, train, replace workers, accommodate neighbours (other organizations or people, use resources to expand and maintain, harmonize work flows with human elements. Organizational diversity: size of the organization, type/sector, multiplex (more than one at the same time, structure, capital, institutional context, global/contextual.
