SOC 3308 Study Guide - Steven Levitt, Freakonomics, Multinational Corporation
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Compares drug dealing to working at mcdonalds. Selling drugs (crack cocaine) to gang is the worst job. All-access moms - chose three moms to do a video and show them the process of the meat they believe it to be very healthy and prepared correctly and clean spoke of. Cargill (it"s multi-national corporation which provides food supplies to mcdonalds) Bureaucracy: a large-scale organization with a formal structure. Weber: the iron cage: bureaucracy can be de-humanizing, the self is placed in confinement, its emotions controlled, and its spirit subdued (takaki, 1990: bureaucracies can be cages people are trapped within them, the basis of their humanity denied, weber feared that bureaucracies would grow more and more rational and that rational principles would dominate. Optimum method for getting from one point to another. Follow steps in a predesigned process: calculability: Emphasizes the quantitative aspects of products sold (portion, size, cost) and services offered ( time it takes to get the product: predictability:
