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Week 4 - Individuals, groups and organizations (Organizations (:!:Amitai…

- - - - :warning: Agency vs structure
      - Nature vs nurture
      - Individual vs scoiety
- - - - The self is thoroughly social, ability to empathize with others
      - The self emerges through social interaction
      - There is a difference between I (creative) and Me (socially conditioned part of self)
      - :warning: Taking the role of the other is seeing ourselves as the others see us
      - :warning: Imagining how others see us develops the self
    - - Strongly influenced by George Herbert
      - Sees social life as drama
      - Social interactions come down to staging a performance
      - Analyzes and deconstructs performance to gain insight into the consturction of the self in everyday situations
        
        Importance of status symbols
        
        Importance of non-verbal communication
        
        Frontstage-backstage
        
        Idealizing our intentions
        
        :warning: Impression management
    - - Behaviour of people in time, location and context bound
      - Attitude,behaviour, emotions, passions all depend on how people live with one another
      - Increasing interdependencies in society are associated with growing sense of individuality
- - - - Reference groups can be primary and/or secondary
      - REference groups can be a social group that an individual belongs to but does not have to be
      - People might changes their opinions/behavoirs in accordance to reference groups
- - - - Hierarchical relationships based on levels of supervision
      - Excess of rules and regulations, taking out the human factor as much as possible
      - Task allocation based on specific skills and expertise
      - Impersonality
      - written documentation of all processes
      - Task specialization by increasing division of labour
    - - Dehumanization and alienation
      - Ineffciency and ritualism
      - Abuse of power
      - Peter principle: promotion until the level on which you just cant hadle it
      - Parkinson's law: work takes as long as is determined before hand
    - - The principles of fast food industry come to be known more in social life
      - efficiency
      - calculability
      - control through automation
      - predictabiltiy