SOC208H5 Lecture 5: SOC208 Lecture 5
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Soc208: behaviours result from institutionalized values and beliefs, situated character of behaviour, position in a structure affects understandings, choices, actions, outcomes, causal effect of institutional environments and organizational forms on behaviour. Merton"s strain theory: merton (1968) proposed five ways of contending with strain in an anomic society, conformity, ritualism, rebellion. Conformity: conformists accept both cultural goals and the institutionalized means by which to attain them, accepts goals / accept means. Individuals who conform to society"s norms with no expectation of achieving its goals: reject goals / accept means. Innovation: attaining goals of success through illegitimate means, accept goals / reject means. Individuals who, after internalizing cultural goals, find them unobtainable. Rebellion: go against conventional cultural goals that they feel unable to achieve, new goals / new means. Corporate culture & anomie: anomie & strain permeate corporate culture, profit maximization, success vs cost, uncertainty, anomic environment.
