SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Structuration Theory
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They need to adapt to the influence of their environment, i. e. political, cultural environment. They create value for their customers and employees. Socialization, re-socialization, industrial firms (wholesale, retail, manufacturing), protection (police, military). Insurance (banks), reservation of culture (museum, university), recreation (sports, recreation teams). You can see whether they are efficient of inefficient. They tend to be doing the same thing over and over, suppose a factory. We can see organizations as examples of collective actions. They are extensions of ourselves; there are some goals we cannot do individually. Organizations under the law are seen as people. Organizations can become an independent branch according to their own interest. Alienation damage to the psychic due to over conformity stress, commercialization of feelings. There are a lot of organizations you belong to such as you belong to the organization of uoft. All organizations exist in a physical technical environment. They all have goals and objectives, what markets they want to work in.
