SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organizational Culture, Group Cohesiveness, Social Control

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Asia Friedman

Document Summary

High amounts of social capital in a community is tightly knit and can come together to face challenges and make improvements. Network analysis in group research: network analysis researchers use the basic concepts about groups and social networks that we have discussed to investigate how group life shapes individual behavior. Institutional isomorphism refers to a constraining process that forces one organization to resemble other organizations that face the same set of environmental conditions. Informal social sanctions: unspoken rules and expectations about the behavior of individuals, help maintain a base level or order and cohesion in society and form a foundation for formal social control. In this interview, victor rios discusses his research on gangs and policing of black and latino boys. Robert merton: robert merton"s strain theory argues that deviance occurs when a society does not give all its members equal ability to achieve socially acceptable goals.