Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Social Status
1 Feb 2018
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Role - behaviours and attitudes associated with a particular stats: differ cross culturally, a status is usually associated with more then one role. Reality is not as xed as it seems, a lot of emphasis put on agency. Situations we de ne as real, become real in their consequences . Performer" recover: serves to remind us how fragile performances" are. Max weber: did a lot of work on bureaucracy, formal rationalization, ef ciency, quanti cation, predictability, control. Organizational environment - refers to a range of factors outside the organization that affects its operation: factors include, 1. Weber believed bureaucracy was inhumane in nature. The world would become disenchanted leading to further alienation. Criticizes because it gave a lot of power to executives. Some argued that it was not increasing production. Dehumanizing because it fosters ef ciency at the expense of human needs bureaucratic anergia - bureaucratic organizations tend to perpetuate themselves.
