SOCB58H3 Lecture 10: Sociology of Culture Lecture 10
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Organizations as trying to extract more from workers through cultural motivations such as economic incentive, organization structures, and the organization stories. Consensus model where we are all on the same path, same goals. Cleavage model the worker and managerial system as wanting different thing. Fragmentation management and workers thoughts/beliefs align sometimes and sometimes do not. Mass culture theory media is implanting ideas into our minds, consumers as victims. Without a shared meaning system, we cannot go anywhere, because society is filled with meaning: reflection theory and meaning: The base creates the superstructure which then reflects back down onto the base. Mar(cid:454)ist"s o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)atio(cid:374) is that the superstru(cid:272)ture ((cid:448)alues, a(cid:374)d culture) that matter keep changing and reflect the base. In marxist view the superstructure is controlled by elites. Culture and values as a reflection, an explanation to why it is called reflection theory.
