SOC300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Culture, Compstat, Canadian Space Agency
Document Summary
History of prisons and penal incarceration (1600s+) Org as the key phenomenon of our time- large organizations have absorbed society- perrow. Organizations are ubiquitous in modern societies: government, military, tax collection, later- some religious organizations (roman catholic church, even later- universities, now- canadian space agency, facebook, corrections canada, service. Most key activities are structured by large, formal organizations rather than individuals alone. General definition: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative purist of specified goals. Environment (technological, physical, cultural, legal) america, local/state gov, Technology (broadly defined)- incarceration, solitary, iron gag, architecture. Goals (more specific, the better)- rehabilitation, deterrence, crime reduction. Participants prisoners, guards, prison admins, volunteers. Social structure prisoners defer to guards and prison admit, guards defer to prison admins. Reliability formalization, authority structures, elaborate rules and routines, strong cultures, specialized machinery. Organizations let us do things we cant do as individuals. Prisons, courts and police departments= cj org therefore we can learn from other organizations.
