SOCL 2001 : Sociology Notes Test 2
Document Summary
Social construction of reality: use background assumptions and life experiences to define what is real , example, what is the right way to sneeze/ cough. Need for macro and micro: macro larger framework, micro everyday interactions. Schools: all of the current supreme court justices graduated from. Goal displacement and perpetuation of bureaucracies: bureaucracies exceed at harnessing people"s energy to reach specific goals, goal displacement, once goals are achieved bureaucracy does not disappear, organization continues after achieving initial goals. Asch conformity experiment: significance of findings, reasons for wrong responses= people were questioning their judgments because everyone was saying another answer (therefore it must be right) Groupthink: source influences of authority and peers, alternative suggestions maybe viewed as disloyal, openness/ diverse opinions reduce groupthink, risk of rejecting groupthink, reject group idea therefore considered one of the others (social outcast, you are risking being labeled.
