SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Western Electric, Marxist Sociology, Mark Granovetter
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Social networks: the set of direct and indirect connections among a group of people. Direct connections include links of kinship, friendship, and acquaintance. Information, social support, and other valuable resources flow through incompletely connected, or weakly tied, networks. Community: a group of people living together and sharing common values, a common territory, and a daily life. Communities are often self-contained, with community members working and living within the same limited geographic area. Spontaneous organization: an organization that arises quickly to meet a single goal and disbands when the goal is achieved. Informal organization: an organization with loosely specified goals and little task differentiation between members. Formal organization: an organization with clearly specified goals and a high degree of task differentiation among members. Bureaucracy: the most developed, most efficient formal organization, with formal properties that include written rules, protected careers, and a clear chain of reporting relationships (a system that is rationalized and associated with states and the post-industrial.
