SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Jargon, Interpol, Peter Principle
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Bureacracy: goal-oriented organizations specifically designed to abide by rational principles so that the effective attainment of their goals is achieved as efficiently as possible. Formal organizations: larger groups whose short-term and long-term activities are planned to achieve certain objectives. Relationships we have in our lives can be classified into two categories: primary group. Relationships among members have strength, emotional investment, and relative permanence (with family members) attached to them: secondary group. Interactions and relationships are generally impersonal, transitory and merely temporary (sales clerk who serves us at grocery store) Almost all formal organizations in the criminal justice field operate as bureaucracies, and this became widespread during the industrial revolution. We owe many of the original insights regarding bureaucracy to max weber: focused on rationalization: The increasing trend toward explicitly orienting goals and procedures for achieving them without regard to emotional involvement or consequences leaders need to be emotionally detached, and hence rigorously.