REAL TIME CLASS NOTES
Dr Jack's Loft  ©2004

        Chapter 3 - SOCIAL STRUCTURE 
I. Definition of "Structure"
Zimbardo's "The Prisoner"

 

A. Social reality

B.elements defining social reality
  1.social hierarchies


  2.status
    a. ascribed

    b. achieved

    c. marginal

    d. master

  3.roles
    a. functionalist

    b. conflict

    c. role strain


C. group
  1. number of people

  2. share values
  3. behavioural expectancy

  4. Primary Group

    a. small/personal

    b. face-to-face
 
    c. subjective
  5. Secondary Group

    a. impersonal


    c. "rules"
  6. In Group

    a. belong

    b. out group

    c. conflict
D. Social Networks
  1. links

  2. E-networking

II. Social Evolution  (brief explanation)
A. Ferdinand Tonnies

     1. collective will

     2.  rational and essential



     3. Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft

 

 

 

     4. division of labor



     5. possibility of marginality

 B. Lenski

  1. agrarian

  2. industrial

  3. post industrial

  4. post modern

III.  FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS
A. 1. purpose

     2. structure

     3. high behavioural expectancy

     4. efficient

     5. secondary groups
B. The Bureaucracy
  1. hierarchy

  2. specialization

  3. rules

  4. impersonal

  5. who u r/what u r

  6. economic covenant
C. Technology and the Workplace
  1. computers
    a. equality

    b. physical; problems

    c. isolation

    d. moving to ....

 

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