SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Space Shuttle Challenger, Liberal Feminism, George Ritzer
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All the direct and indirect connections that link a person or a group with other people or groups. Network- a set of informal and formal ties that link people to one another relations that exist in groups and organizations, laid down by the relations that exist in groups and organizations developed on the. Weber believed the main dynamic of modern development. Max weber & rationality is the rationalization of social and economic life. Weber focused on why western societies developed so differently from other societies, he also emphasized the importance of cultural ideas and values on social change. Critics of this bureaucracy development who share webers intial concerns have questioned whether the efficency of rational organizations comes at a price greater than. Weber could have imagined bureaucracy & effciency bureaucracy- a type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules of procedure and staffed by full time, salaried officials.
