SOC208H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: White-Collar Crime, Unintended Consequences, Organizational Chart
Document Summary
Families: we are part of multiple organizations even if we aren"t aware of it, facilitate innovations. Influence the environment: create value, dominant characteristics of modern society, communication discovery, tech companies, tv companies, phone companies, recreation, teams. Schools: resocialization, mental hospitals, production and distribution of good, whole sale, retail, services, health care to financial advising, protection, police, banking. Finances: culture, museums, art galleries, capacities of organizations, durable: Latent: subtle, unintended, just happens: eg: school: finding partners, making friends etc Social ills: power, bureaucracy, exploitation, crime, rationalization (things become standard, predictable, replicated, boring) Standardization of everyday life: predictable, managed, alienation, damages psyche, over conformity, operational requirements, organizations must: Induce cooperation ( paid: define goals, dispense products/ services ( gather resources or produce resources, accommodate neighbors( need to get along with other organizations or law. Level of analysis ( not going to be tested on) Social psychological level: organizational level, ecological level.
