SOCY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Loose Coupling
22 Sep 2015
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The life course is the process of personal change from infancy to late adulthood, resulting from personal and societal events. : historic events affect people differently depending on birth cohort. Timing for us vs. others in the same birth cohort. : major life events can be disruptive if they occur for us at an unusual time. : events affecting others in our networks can affect us. : we have the ability to make our own life choices. Context collapse - separation of context is eliminated with social media, because all of your different social groups become amalgamated. : a group engaged in a specific activity that has an identifiable purpose or goal and an enduring form of association that is independent of the people involved in it at any moment. Organizations in the same field or market tend to engage in organizational isomorphism. I. e. over time, similar organizations will begin to look and behave like.
