SOCIOL 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Isomorphism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Desirability Bias
28 Nov 2017
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How organizations contribute to inequality and the aspiration gap. Part 1: *key idea, how contexts/structures constrain indiv. action. Goal of the study is to summarize research on organizations and inequality using three interrelated explanatory frameworks: power of environment. People work in organizations, which are part of a broader eld. It"s not just the outcome of the people inside the company but rather also in uences from the realities of the outside world. What apple does, might become what microsoft will do etc . It"s the largest and most powerful institutions that a ect/in uence other institutions that are smaller and less in uential. They become isomorphic when they all start to look more or less similar. Often times, this is because the smaller organizations want to appear legitimate. The way change can become a ective, is through this institutional isomorphism can create social change.
