SOC208H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 47 pages long!)
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Social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals. People bring together resources to meet goals or to provide services. Organizations are a dominant characteristic of modern society: discovery, socialization, resocialization (mental hospitals, production/distribution, provision of services, protection (police, preservation of culture (churches, communication, recreation (sports) Collective action: extensions of ourselves: achieve goals we could not achieve alone, collective actors: natural vs. juridical persons, unintended consequences: manifest vs. latent functions (intended vs. Over conformity can lead to stress and over development. Social ills: organizations have power, rationalization, alienation. In order to operate, organizations must: define goals, induce cooperation, dispense products/services, select, train, replace workers, accommodate neighbours (other organizations or people, use resources to expand and maintain, harmonize work flows with human elements. Organizational diversity: size of the organization, type/sector, multiplex (more than one at the same time, structure, capital, institutional context, global/contextual.
