SOC 180A Complex Formal Organization PDF

➔​ ]Complex formal organization ◆​ Organizations create the money and change our lives, contributing to inequality due to hierarchy ◆​ Resist to change and they have ability to change society with theses changes6 ➔​ Week 1 ◆​ Formal structures we are heavily reliant on as...

➔​ ]Complex formal organization ◆​ Organizations create the money and change our lives, contributing to inequality due to hierarchy ◆​ Resist to change and they have ability to change society with theses changes6 ➔​ Week 1 ◆​ Formal structures we are heavily reliant on as the form the path for us with things such as intimacy as we meet our people in organizations ◆​ What are bureaucracy ​ Developed within the nation stat ○​ Royal court and feudalism ○​ State bureaucracy ◆​ It created to take care of the space ◆​ There is drive of competition ◆​ Merchants soon become firms due to the struggle of competition ​ Commercial organizations with rise of urbanism, capitalistism, market ○​ Craft people were still in control of their labor ◆​ Forms of organizations ​ Introduction of the foreman and factory ◆​ What are formal organizations ​ They are start to standardized due to competition ​ Process of organizing collective activity with admin tasks ◆​ Why are they so effective ​ They divide tasks via specialization and what the organization needs to function ​ We have organizational chart is to keep social order and hierarchy ○​ They also do it for reasons of complexity and control ◆​ Reasons of complexity ​ Reduces it by arranging human thought and action into categories, responsibilities that make it more simple and manageable ​ Breakdown reality into departments; if there was no major no one would be able to complete so it creates majors for specific department ​ They organize it into data and turns it into information ​ It allows for control ◆​ Reasons of control ​ Way of organizing collective action that can be administratively controlled to achieve leader defined agendas and goats ​ About control human beings and action ​ Aggregation means is our human experience is not unique ◆​ Applied reasons ​ Help better organize to achieve desired results such as human resources, production ◆​ Theoretical reasons  ​ Place in society and how they influence society and how society influences them not in improving them ◆​ Two trends ​ Large social distant organizations dominate your lives ​ Expansion: rapid expansion has increased concentration, dependence ​ Absorption: many social functions formerly carried out by informally arranged groups and associations have been absorbed by the formal organization over time ◆​ UCD ​ Dependence is something everyone wants ​ UCD wants to be too big to fail ◆​ Absorbing social functions ​ Doing concentration, dependence, and size have absorbed social functions formerly carried out by less organized association and social arrangement ○​ It absorbs politics and government, - organizational interests are placed first ○​ Economics and economy ○​ Technology and technological innovation: made us believe that we need computers, iPads, phone ○​ Communities and civics ○​ Life changes and Life courses ○​ Socialization and education: ◆​