SOC 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inspector, Psychoticism, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 4900
• Professor: pudis

Document Summary

Bureaucracies are closed systems focused on rationalization: people work without emotional involvement. Supervision and subordination: specific person is in charge and trained to be in charge, workers must answer to the supervisor (subordinates, expected that you fulfil your role. Unity of command: each subordinate reports to only one supervisor. Bureaucracies have an emphasis on documentation records. Training goes along with each job: laid out for you when you first start, outlines role that you have. Can be very specific law enforcement/prevention. Specific police may have their own goals. Toronto police having different goals than those of guelph. Rules and norms are guided by 2 sets of rules: written out by the government in the criminal code/charter, ones that are created internally that govern police. Police division rules (provincially/federally etc: they create positions at the top of a pyramid and as people move down they.