Chapter 5 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Master Status
dominates all other statuses (Everett C Hughes)
Status Hierarchy
ranking of statuses – based on
prestige and power
Status Consistency/Inconsistency:
statuses ‘line up’ /
highly ranked in one category but not in others,
leading to targeting of people or groups
Status Inconsistency
tension from statuses not
‘lining up’
Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
First to focus on the daily one-on-
one social interactions
Thomas Theorem
tells us: the interpretation of a situation causes the action, if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
Definition of the Situation
in certain contexts, people define situations differently
often in contradictory ways, based on their
own subjective experiences
Thomas Theorem and Robert Merton
Supports notion of self-fufilling prophecy so beliefs can act as social forces
Labeling
negative labels applied to a status – powerful
master status created and internalized (Amir Sped Poem)
Front stage
Front Stage: public display
Reflects actor’s social status; Manner
tells audience what to expect
Back Stage
personal
encounters; no audience;
informal action
Impression Management
Describes the tactics people employ
when presenting themselves publicly
Social organization
Social and cultural principles around which
things are structured, ordered, and
categorized (eg egalitarianism)
Webers work on bureaucracy
Studied why people act the way they do socially. He challenged the scientific school of thought, and he questioned individual freedom in an increasing rational society
Critical Management Studies
Challenges the dominant assumptions of organizations
Carol Muellers 3 Models
Formal Social Movement Organizations (womans rights)
Small Groups / Collectives (woman publishing houses)
Service Provider Organizations (services: dom abuse counselling)
Max Webers iron cage Of Rationalization
1905:
- Increasing knowledge, growing impersonality, enhanced control of social and material life
- A technically ordered, rigid, dehumanized society
- Increased rationalization: bureaucratization of society
Formal Rationalization
Best forms, try and use best efficient or predictable forms of organization
Substantive Rationalization
Substance of values and ethical norms, are we reflecting our group values
Formal Rationalization’s 4 Elements
- Efficiency
- Quantification
- Predictability
- Control
… these led to Disenchantment and Irrationality
A technocracy
controls power
through specialized technical
knowledge and information
* Worker’s self-management
McDonaldization
‘process by which the [rationalizing] principles
of the fast-food restaurant are coming to
dominate more and more sectors of the world’
