SOCL 2001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Groupthink, Girl Scouts Of The Usa, Sharing Space
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College classes, political party: with secondary groups, you can have primary groups exist/made, voluntary associations: people who volunteer based on mutual interests, americans love voluntary associations, e. g. Girl scouts, chamber of commerce, american legion, etc: michel"s iron rule of oligarchy: term for the tendency of formal organizations to be dominated by a small, self-perpetuating elite, oligarchy: a system of many ruled by few, e. g. Torture of suspected terrorists, jews in the holocaust: reference groups: a group whose standards we refer to as we evaluate ourselves, e. g. Bureaucracies: bureaucracies: a formal organization with a hierarchy of authority and a clear division of labor; emphasis on impersonality of positions and written rules, communications, and records, 1. Separate levels, with assignments flowing downward and accountability flowing upward- each level assigns responsibilities to the level beneath it, and each lower level is accountable to the level above it for fulfilling those assignments: 2.
