Sociology Midterms

• Organizational environments that have an impact on the organizations operations?

  Economic, political, population trends, current events, and other organizations
• Traits that promote organizational efficiency?

  specialization of duties, hierarchy of offices, rules and regulation, technical competence, impersonality, formal, written communications
• Problems with bureaucracies?

  Alienation, inertia, and inefficiency & ritualism
• functions of deviance?

  From Durkheim's basic insight, because there is no good without evil, no justice without crime.

  Affirms cultural values and norms, clarifies moral boundaries, brings people together, and encourages social change
• types of social control ?

  from Travis Hirschi's control theory. Attachment, opportunity, belief, and involvement
• how does the family affect and individual's socialization experiences?

  Teaches children skills, values, and beliefs

  through love, makes happy, well adjusted children

  gives social identity to the children
• how does the school affect and individual's socialization experiences?

  experience diversity

  exposed to hidden curriculum

  begin gender socialization
• how does peer groups affect and individual's socialization experiences?

  Anticipatory socialization

  escape from adult supervision

  form a sense of self or identity that is outside of the family
• how does mass media/social media affect and individual's socialization experiences?

  politics

  violence
• challenges to formal organizations?

  Changing nature of work

  the japanese work environment

  race and gender