SOC208H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Trust Law, Homophily, Extortion
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Organizations are social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals. Focus: socialization, resocialization, production/distribution - factories provision of services healthcare, finance protection policing, banks preservation of culture libraries, galleries, museums communication tv recreation - teams, sports, parks discovery university. Extensions of ourselves achieve goals could not be achieved alone: collective actors own property, enter contracts, act, unintended consequences manifest vs latent functions. Social ills power groups with power have influence on society rationalization standardization of everyday life can make life more predictable and bland alienation over conformity can damage psyches limitation on creativity. Level of analysis: social psychological level people [micro, organizational level structural features/processes [meso, ecological level [macro] Elements outside organization that influence its ability to survive [crime laws, bribery, policing] - physical, te. Strategies and goals choices about markets, clients, competition, tactics, output goals. Work and technology: work tasks to accomplish goals. Technology energy to transform inputs and outputs.
