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Social Groups and Formal Organizations

Social Groups and Formal Organizations. Accompanies Chapter 4 of Textbook. Links. Asch Experiment- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh5qy09nNw McDonaldization : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1AgO6Fp4. Discussion Outline. Group Relationships Group Dynamics Formal Organization.

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Social Groups and Formal Organizations

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  1. Social Groups and Formal Organizations Accompanies Chapter 4 of Textbook

  2. Links • Asch Experiment- • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRh5qy09nNw • McDonaldization: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdy1AgO6Fp4

  3. Discussion Outline • Group Relationships • Group Dynamics • Formal Organization

  4. Group Relationships • Group types and relationships • Expressive and Instrumental ties • Primary and Secondary groups • In Groups and Out groups • Reference groups and identity

  5. Dynamics of Group Activity • Leaders • Types and Styles • Social Loafing and Social Dilemmas

  6. Dynamics • Groupthink • Conformity • The Sherif and Asch studies

  7. Formal Organizations • Coercive Organizations and Total Institutions

  8. Bureaucracy • Characteristics of Bureacracy • The Iron Law of Oligarchy

  9. The Sociology of Work • Why do we work? • How has the work experience changed over the past two centuries?

  10. The Sociology of Work • Satisfaction in work • Alienation and a lack of power

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