SOC300H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
Document Summary
Changes in modern society shows that organizations have dominated modern society. Charles perrow argues that things that used to be done by single people, families. Tax collection (later) some religious organizations (roman catholic church) (even later) universities (now) canadian spacy agency, facebook, corrections canada, service ontario, Canadian hockey league, canada post, second cup, amazon, rogers/bell. Most key services are structured by large, formal organizations rather than individuals alone. They also let us do things we can"t do as individuals. Organizations: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals: hint for the exam- what wouldn"t be an organization. Yes: environment (technological (lecturing is a type of technology), physical, cultural, legal, technology (broadly defined, goals (more specific, the better, participants, social structure. Ubiquity (found everywhere) in modern society (useful in society), utility. Normative structure: values, norms, and roles, what are certain goals we have, prescription of how people should behave.
