SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thai Cultural Mandates, Profit Maximization, Informal Social Control
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Things you see as a society as a whole. Larger social process that see how smaller systems operate. Micro level people that you interact with at some level, face-to-face, informal social control. Meso level interactions between groups, with groups, and what connects large corporations with smaller levels. Behaviors result from institutionalized values and beliefs. Culture of the organization can situate the behavior. Situated character of behavior: position in a structure affects understandings, choices, actions, Causal effect of institutional environments and organizational forms on outcomes behavior. Effect the culture has on ability to commit crimes, and predicts why it. Structural and cultural contradictions in capitalism promote crime. Modern society cerate strains and limitation with social goals. Inaccessible to some groups such as the lower ses, marginalized groups, Merton (1968) proposed five ways of contending with strain in an. People accept the goals and the means. End of getting a good education, not become deviant.
