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SOC 101 Ch. 5 Groups, Networks, and Organizations

Dyads & Triads
Social Processes
1. Exchange
2. Norm of reciprocity
3. Cooperation
4. Competition
5. Conflict
Processes in Everyday Life
1. Group
  1. Reference groups
  2. Primary groups
  3. Secondary groups
Interaction in Groups
1. Size
2. Proximity
3. Communication Patterns
  1. All-channel
  2. Wheel
4. Cohesion
Group Conformity
1. The Asch Conformity
2. The Milgram Experiment
3. The Stanford Prison Experiment
Decision Making
1. Risky shift
2. Group think - tendency for even highly educated group members to reach a consensus opinion, even if that opinion is downright stupid.
Social networks- a set of relations- essentially a set of dyads- held together by ties between individuals
1. Strong ties and weak ties
2. Community
3. Social capital- the information, knowledge of people and connections that help individuals enter, gain power in, or otherwise leverage social networks.
Complex Organization
1. Organization- any social network that is defined by a common purpose and has a boundary between its membership and the rest of the world.
2. Bureaucracy-is special type of complex organization characterized by explicit rules and hierarchal authority structure, all designed to maximize efficiency.
3. Weber’s “Ideal type”
  1. Division of labor
  2. Hierarchal authority
  3. Rules and regulations
  4. Impersonal relationships
  5. Careers, tenure and technical qualifications
  6. Efficiency
4. Organizational culture
5. Critiques of Bureaucracies
  1. Ritualism
  2. Alienation
  3. Structured inequality
6. McDonaldization- Process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are applied to other industries .
  1. Efficiency
  2. Calculability
  3. Predictability
  4. Control