SOCI 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mcjob, Complex Number, Visible Minority

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Disenchantment of the world: the weakened influence of religious authorities as a result of a new way of seeing the world through science and the principles of rationality. Rationalisation: way of solving problems that is based on four main factors - predictability, calculability, efficiency, and control. Predictability things can be repeated w/ the expectation of same results. Calculability things that can be counted and quantified. Efficiency the best means to a given end. Control an enhanced certainty of outcomes. Allows us to make sense of the world. This sense allows us some control over it. Bureaucracy: the rule of the office or desk and is essentially a machine made of humans; prototype of rationalisation in modern society. Based on french root bureau (officer or desk) & greek root kratia (power or rule) They are based on hierarchically organised offices . They have a vertical chain of command. They have a clear, formal division of labour.