[SOC208H5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (31 pages long!)
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Social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals. Some provide services like lease, insurance, banks (provide protection) Achieve goals we could not achieve alone: collective action. Natural vs. juridic persons: unintended consequences. Rationalization: standardization of everday life, predictable, managed. Understandings of and approaches to organizations vary by: disciplines, orientation. Pure vs. applied: level of analysis. Environment: elements outside the organization that influence its ability to survive, physical, technological, social, cultural environment, resources, opportunities, constraints, demands, threats, clients, constituents, customers. Strategies and goals: choices about markets, clients, competition, tactics, output goals, prospectors: create innovative products and services, defenders: develop efficiencies in internal processes, analysers: combine approaches. Work and technology: work: tasks organizations need to accomplish its goals, tech: inputs into outputs. Formal organization: codification of roles and relations (everyone has a part to play and there is entry level, which has a boss, which has a boss etc. )
