SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Social Inequality, Intersectionality, New York City Police Department
Document Summary
Unintended unantipated consequence of social action: modern industrial capitalism. Social transformation in ways you don"t notice. Sociology an attempt to connect particular ind in social relationships. All ind are networked no such thing as an isolated ind. There are institutions in which rationality is located. Bureaucracy: the ultimate instrumentally rational organization rational org. Written rules-what they serve to do-new development that occurs after french rev. new rules that dominate all institutions-start to resemble bureaucracy, has to be organized. Bureau or office not personal-not connected to individual, the structure is there anyone can step into it, cant be transferred automatically there are rules. Different from past where the position was connected to the person ex kings queens. Bureaucracies simultaneously inevitable and deeply problematic; instruments of power and domination-when it becomes to dominate it becomes problematic if focus is relentlessly on the written rules, any bus enterprise org.
