SA 150 Midterm: SA 150 MIDTERM PREP #2

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Formal organization: such as schools, businesses, health care companies and government offices. Bureaucracy: one ideal type of formal organization. Hierarchical organization: an individual answers to another individual who is in charge, and that person must in turn answer to her own superior. Division of labour: every person in a bureaucracy has a specific task, and is expected to perform it and to become an expert in it. Explicit organizational rules: are standardized and written down. Rationalization: encourages people to rely on what are considered to be rational calculations of how to best achieve an end goal. Substantive rationality describes a way of organizing that is explicitly designed as an alternative to the weberian bureaucratic focus on efficiency and profits. Institution: the socially constructed, historical patterns of material subsistence, organize time and space, and provide meaning to their social reality. Belief or assumption (knowledge as something based on science, the existence of race and gender)