SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructionism, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Hawthorne Effect
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Understand characteristics of social networks, groups, formal organisations and bureaucracies, and be able to apply them to new situations. Understand that networks, groups, and cliques exist within formal organisations. Consider both positive and negative characteristics of bureaucracies, and reflect on means to control or suppress negative ones. Tepperman, lorne, patrizia albanese, and jim curtis (eds. ). Questions to guide the reading/to think about ahead of time for students. Tepperman argues that that teams, bands, gangs and communities are qualitatively different from other social groups. Tepperman writes that categories become significant when they are socially constructed as significant. Bureaucracy is an efficient form of organisation. explain and evaluate this statement. Understand the results of hawthorne studies and the human relations school of management. Summarize ways in which information flows contrary to or independently from the formal structure of a bureaucracy. Understand the connection tepperman makes between total institutions and totalitarian societies.
