SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Human Resources, Human Capital, Centrality
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Organizations: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals i. e. - non profit organizations, companies, corporations, sports and entertainment. Organizations have been around for a really long time, dominant. Family main building blocks of society in general. Reliable but may not be adaptable (can"t deal with change very well) Legal codes, records, paper trail, enforcement (rules not always followed) Achieve goals we could not achieve alone. Organizations can vary in size, most tend to be smaller. Multiplex: one can belong to many organizations (clubs) Structure: they can be hierarchal, layers of authority. Capital: what the organizations goals are; capital vs human capital. Institutional context: organization in a university vs. a country overseas. Understanding of an approaches to organizations vary by: Pure vs applied (how does gender work in this organization vs how efficient is this organization) Ecological level (what is the organization doing as an entity within a global environment)
