SOC208H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unintended Consequences, Homophily, Differential Association
Document Summary
Organizations: social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals. Organizations tend to bring recourses together to achieve goals and outcomes. They produce goods and services efficiently, facilitate educational trends to use technology as a means to adapt and influence the external environment in social contexts. Types/ examples: government, religious groups, work, family, ngo"s (red-cross), corporations (mcdonald"s) Designed to persist over time (more so than other social structures) Endurance, stability and longevity (potential drawback-) doesn"t mean effective : reliable: Formalization, rules, authority, routines, strong cultures, specialized machinery. May not be adaptable, regardless of reliability (potential drawback) Behaviour takes place in a ruled framework. Guidelines & justifications for decisions and activities (e. g. a prof can"t teach anything they want; they need approval) Does not prevent crime and corruption -not everyone follows it (potential drawback) Natural vs. judicial persons: unintended consequences: Manifest (intended) vs. latent (unintended meeting their significant partners) functions.
