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Why do you think the video was called the power of the situation? ... RITUALISM. GROWTH. PRIVACY. OLIGRACHY. THE PETER PRINCIPLE. McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Group Questions on The Power of the Situation


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Group Questions onThe Power of the Situation
  • Why do you think the video was called the power
    of the situation?
  • Explain what the connection between personality
    and social structure were in the Milgram study
    and the Zimbardo study.
  • Do you have any ethical concerns about the
    studies shown in the video? Be specific.
  • Develop a hypothesis about the sorts of social
    characteristics that would lead to higher levels
    of nonconformity in the Milgram Study. How about
    the Zimbardo study?

2
Agenda for Bureaucracy and Formal Organizations
  • Theories about rationalization of society
  • Marx and Weber
  • Bureaucracy
  • characteristics
  • Ideal Vs. Real
  • Dysfunctions
  • alienation
  • red tape
  • oligarchy

3
Essential Characteristics of Bureaucracy
  • Hierarchy
  • responsibility and work flow downwards
  • power flows upward
  • Division of Labor
  • Written Rules
  • Written communications and records
  • impersonality

4
Dysfunctions of Bureaucracies
  • Red tape
  • lack of communication
  • bureaucratic alienation
  • goal displacement
  • bureaucratic incompetence

5
Formal OrganizationsLarge secondary groups that
are organized to achieve goals efficiently
  • Normative organizations
  • voluntary values and attitudes
  • Coercive Organizations
  • total institutions often involuntary
  • Utilitarian Organizations
  • pursuit of personal goals

6
Voluntary Associationsfunctions
  • By all associations
  • way for members to advance particular interests
  • offer people identity and sense of belonging
  • govern and maintain social order
  • By Some Associations
  • mediate between government and individual
  • train people in organizational skills
  • bring people into political mainstream
  • pave the way for social change

7
A FEW PROBLEMS WITH FORMAL ORGNAIZATIONS
  • ALIENATION
  • RITUALISM
  • GROWTH
  • PRIVACY
  • OLIGRACHY
  • THE PETER PRINCIPLE

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McDONALDIZATION OF SOCIETY
  • EFFICIENCY
  • CALCULABILITY
  • PREDICTABILITY
  • CONTROL THROUGH AUTOMATION
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