SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Normal Accidents, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Bounded Rationality
2 Dec 2016
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Sociology 101 (detailed note): the normalization of organizational deviance. Sometimes there"s a disaster, like the plane that went down in colombia on the weekend and almost a whole soccer team died. There"s all kinds of speculations about electrical and fuel issues. There are individual explanations for why this happens but also organizational explanations. Challenger disaster- big deal january 28 1986. Orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al theorists re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize there"s (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) ki(cid:374)ds of orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)s o te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologies that will always be high risk. One thing with high risk systems is that accidents can be normal. Some are like small fires or there"s (cid:449)he(cid:374) pla(cid:374)es go do(cid:449)(cid:374) Not suggesting that in some cases somebody screwed up massively but in some cases rules have been followed 100%. What if there were no problems with rule following that kept people safe years before but disaster still happened. Charles perro(cid:449), (cid:862)it is (cid:374)or(cid:373)al for us to die, (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e o(cid:374)l(cid:455) do it o(cid:374)(cid:272)e. (cid:863)
