SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: East Los Angeles College
Document Summary
Structuralism: the ideas that an overarching structure exists within culture and other aspects of society must be understood. Social capital: the personal connections and networks that enable people to accomplish their goals and extend their influence. Matt huffman and lisa torres found that women benefited from networking with more men than women. Organization: a group with an identifiable membership that engages in concerted collective actions to achieve a common purpose. Formal organization: an organization that is rationally designed to achieve its objectives, often by means of explicit rules, regulations, and procedures. Utilitarian organizations: organizations that people join primarily because of some material benefit they expect to receive in return of membership. Coercive organizations: organizations in which people are forced to give unquestioned obedience to authority. Normative organizations: organizations that people join of their own will to pursue morally worthwhile goals without expectation of material reward; sometimes called voluntary associations. Written rules and regulations: bureaucracies: the dominant form of social organization.
