SOCY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Bounded Rationality, Outsourcing, Mcdonaldization

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCY 100
• Professor: Alex Parkhouse

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Socy100 textbook notes chapter 5- organizations, societies, and the. Organizations: (cid:862)(cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es purposel(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted to a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e parti(cid:272)ular e(cid:374)ds(cid:863, ex. ) college, apple, imf. Bureaucracies: max weber- key element of theory is rationalization of the western world, highly rational organization (not always), very efficient, ideal type. Models how the system is supposed to operate optimally (rarely actually happens), used as a comparison to study real bureaucracies: characteristics. Offices have rules, specified spheres of competences, operate in a vertical hierarchy, and have specific functions. Organizations own the items necessary to do the job (computers, desks) not the employees. Everything that is important is documented in writing (admin acts, decisions, rules: defining characteristic of western society, key source of western superiority. Domination: probability that commands will be obeyed by subordinates. (cid:862)domination is legitimated on the basis of legally enacted rules and the rights of those with authority u(cid:374)der those rules to issue (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds(cid:863)