SOC208H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Aphorism, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Social Science
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The subject is organization; the verb is organizing (pg. Organizations significance lie in their increasing prevalence and the increasing frequency with which they are singled out as the source of problems troubling contemporary society. C. wright mills (1956) points out the power elite , whose members occupy top positions in three overlapping organization hierarchies (state bureaucracy, military, larger corporations) Ralf dahrendorf (1959) revised/updated marxist theory: the basis of the class structure was no longer the ownership of the means of production, but the occupancy of positions that allowed the wielding of organizational authority. Max weber (1968) and robert michels (1949) pointed out that (nonelected) public officials (the bureaucracy) were exercising enormous influence over the apparent political leaders. Alienation, over-conformity, and stunting of normal personality development are consequences attributed. Not to such cases as prisons and concentration camps, but to everyday organizations. With the prevalence of the service economy has come the commercialization of human feeling in jobs.
