SOC300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New York City Police Department, Deep South, Solitary Confinement
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Big points: dimaggio and powell"s contribution isomorphism, tolbert and zucker"s contribution early v. late adopters. Lots of examples focus on two: compstat, america"s modern prisons (auburn v. pennsylvania systems) Hospital in colonial williamsburg is similar to wall street jail. New mexico department of corrections, 2011 and alabama department of corrections. Both emphasize the use of safe, secure and human environments even though they are far from each other. Main and minnesota both refer to officer accountability in their statements. Isomorphism: startling homogeneity of organizational fields. Institutionalization: its not going anywhere, its taken for granted, expected. Usually of formal structures: organizational charts (hierarchies), mission statements, rules, formalized routines, even appearance (e. g. architecture, naming practices. The socially mediated spread of some practice within a population. The process in which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system. Not independent, spontaneous generation (cf. written language)
