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Sociology of Organizations
Bureaucracy, Weber, Goffman, Total Institutions
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Sociology
Undergraduate 4
09/30/2009

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Dynamincs of Bureaucracy

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-need knowledge of people, and experience and

Definition

Minimum Emoployment Security-

 

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Dynamics of Bureaucracy

2

-workers need to be safe, and feel like they are apart of it.

Definition
-comfortable for workers
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Dynamic of Beaucracy

3

-Committment, be on time, job centered orientation

Definition
-Professional Orientation
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Dynamics of Beaucracy

4

let management duke it out

Definition
no conflicts let management duke it out
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Enabling Beaucracy
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-employee voice

-skills are important

-processed control over work conditions

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Coercive Beaucracy
Definition
alienation
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Abscences of Reality Checks
Definition

-lacking in competitie rivalry

-lacking in demanding client/customer

-no environmental threat

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Enabling Logic
Definition
-gaining increasing legitimacy in broader culture
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Forces that encourage formalization
Definition

-asymetries of power, knowledge, skill and rewards

-combating this requires an institution employee voice, ex. unions.

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Forces that encourage formalization

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Definition

Abscences of reality checks

-lacking in competitive rivalry

-lacking in demanding client customer

-no environmental threats

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Goffmans Asylums

-Weber and Beaucracy Technical Efficiency

Definition

-Formalizes everything, structure, montior employee, sets up system of trust rules and regulations.

-breaks up life sphere, it never dominates your life.

-Outside of work, you are free as a bird

-Segemented Pieces of life, one for work other for liesure.

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Characteristics of Total Institutions
Definition

1) All aspects of life are regulated and controlled.

2) Time is highly regimented

3) Single rational plan, designed to fulfill the requirements of the inst.

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Mortification Process
Definition
process that strips the inmates of their real lives, and changes them to the structure of the institution
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role desposition
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occurs inmates are not allowed to play the roles they played on the outside
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Programming
Definition
inmates are self shaped, coded, given clothes, self image is lost
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Official Rationale
Definition
necessary for the transformation of the self
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Ward Rationale
Definition
mortification is useful in daily routines, restricted space limited resources
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Strategies Inmates Use in Response to mortification
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1) intentional withdrawl from self

2)intrasigence-refusal to compromise

3)colonization-take over and control

4)conversion-accept and conform

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typical responses for inmates
Definition
playing it cool
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Staff Contradictions
Definition

-contradiction between what the inst. thinks is right and what it represents itself

-contradiction between human standards and efficiency standards. and the developement of sympathetic relationships with inmates.

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Staff Strategies For Easier Process
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1) develop theory of human nature, or inmate

2) develope means of social distance

3) roles of releases-parties, talent shows

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Primary Adjustments
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-uniform standards, rules and regulations one must follow

-individual adjusts to organization

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Secondary Adjustments
Definition
habitual arrangement by which inmates and attendents do things that let the inmates cooperate better sort of like an underlife.
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Making out in Total Institutions

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What happens to inmates

Definition
1) patients self is lost, identity doesnt matter, daily routine is taking over, always being watched
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Making out in Total Institutions

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Ward System and Assignment System

Definition
lets them be themselves for a little bit outside of the reach of primary adjustments
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Staff's Reactions to Patients Making Out
Definition

-temporary release of authority to gain a means to the end.

-patients will behave better, in exchange for some freedom

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Secondary Adjustments

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Definition
creating an identity outside the indentity of the institution
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backstage regions
Definition
spaces accepted by staff and inmates that are essentially "free zones" for secondary adjustments.
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Front stage
Definition
what the public sees
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Containable 2nd adjustments
Definition
do not threaten the institution
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Disruptive 2nd Adjustments
Definition
threatens the institution
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