SOC300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Capital, National Weather Service, Tornado Warning
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Rational systems: organizations are different, normative structure. Natural systems: organizations are similar, behavioural structure formal v. informal goals informal structure, survival. Rational systems approach- focus on organization"s stated/ technical goals and formal structure. Examples of the different organizational cultures within similar organizations- weather stations and prisons. Note the definition- examples- significance set up (midterm study tip) Meaning can be created, reified, or changed though interactions. Organizations can have different interpretations of the same (whatever) What does bureaucracy mean for our organization: there are a lot of different ways we can set it up but they are all still considered bureaucracies. Think idio like idiosyncratic unique to that person, here its culture unique to a . Shopflloor culture idioculture of a workplace. Unique workplace cultures lead to different understandings of work within the same line. Interaction between workplaces that creates idioculture of work.
