SOCIOL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Manuel Castells, Arjun Appadurai, Glass Ceiling
30 Sep 2018
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Other global ows(manuel castells says globalization brought change from place to place: global relationships and organizations. Ethnoscapes(movement/fantasies about movement of various individuals and groups,-tourists/ refugees. Financesecapes - nancial instruments allow huge sums of money and other items of economic value. Mediascapes - both electronic capability to produce and transmit information around the world and images of the world that these media create and disseminate. Toennies) (move form industrial society to)risk society(beck)-trying to stay safety: contrast gemeinschaft and. Charismatic authority: features of bureaucracies and informal organizations. Bounded rationality(real world organization have a limited rational) Merton)-a type of bureaucrat who slavishly follows the rules of the organization, to such an extent that the ability to achieve organizational goals is subverted. Bureaucracies generally demand more information than they need, often to protect themselves from complaints, bad publicity, and lawsuits. The informal organization(how an organization actually works, as opposed to the way it is supposed to work. )
