Sociology

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Sociology for "Scientific" Eyes
Social Processes: Social Organization Teaching Ideas

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• Scientific enterprises as organizations
• Organizational Characteristics (D.Champion, The Sociology of Organizations, NY: McGraw Hill, 1975)
• Bureaucracy
  • Tennessee Valley Authority—goal displacement
  • Professionals vs. bureaucrats—goal conflict, hierarchy
• Opportunity structure and gender (*R. Kanter,”The Impact of Hierarchical Structures and the Work behavior of Men and Women”)
• Roles in disasters (L. Killian, “The Significance of Multiple-Group membership in Disaster”American Journal of Sociology 57, Jan 1952, 309-14; Kai Ericson, Everything in its Path)

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