SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mcdonaldization, Protestant Work Ethic, Public Administration
27 Apr 2017
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Soc 107 - lecture 7 - mar 20, 2017. A large organization structured hierarchically to carry out specific functions to make it more efficient. School, work, government, religion, family, society/nation, legal system, from womb to tomb . There are costs to the pervasiveness of bureaucracies. Abuse of authority, lack of power, misuse of authority, takes a lot of time, emotional toll, money power in hierarchy, navigate it better. Prior to the industrial period, canada was essentially an agrarian society. Economic production processes were slowly removed from the home. Rise of the industrial city and the working class (proletariat) Factory system brought the introduction of labour wages and mechanized methods of production. Efforts to make workers more efficient led to the development of a technique called scientific management. The main proponent of scientific management was frederick w taylor. Scientific management seeks to use research and formal principles to reorganize the labour process efficient and productivity.
