SOC361H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Organisation Climate, Ethnocentrism, Hawthorne Effect
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Cultures role in managing chaos: human beings lacked the genetic programming other animals have to ensure that they will behave in predictable ways that promote collective survival. What"s differe(cid:374)t a(cid:271)out (cid:272)ultures: characteristics of cultures, collective, cultures cannot be produced by individuals acting alone. Us society, where change itself is highly valued and pursued, conformity to court cultural expectations is considered a virtue. People do not one everything in the world to change at the same time. They want to be able to take some things for granted: creation of social order, cultures create social order from the potential chaos that emanates from the open ended nature of the human nervous system. The first of these technical and expressive consequences has already been mentioned: the second set of consequences and cultural activities is their latent and manifest consequences, latent consequences are those that are hidden from view;
