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SOC 250
Power in Modern Bureaucracies
SOC 250 SP
Photo Caption and Credits
Next Offered in 9798 SP
This course will focus on the sociological conception of
power in modern bureaucratic organizations: how power is
created, accumulated, exercised and maintained or lost in
decision-making, leadership and careers, relations between
management and labor, and inter-organizational struggles
for influence and control. With an emphasis on issues of
class, gender and race the course will examine these
dimensions of power across a wide range of organizational
settings: business firms, schools and government.
MAJOR READINGS
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
CORPORATION
Alvin W. Gouldner, PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIAL BUREAUCRACY
Richard Edwards, CONTESTED TERRAIN: THE TRANSFORMATION OF
THE WORKPLACE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Mary Haywood Metz, CLASSROOMS AND CORRIDORS: THE CRISIS OF
AUTHORITY IN DESEGREGATED SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Charles Perrow, COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS: A CRITICAL ESSAY
Graham T. Allison, ESSENCE OF DECISION: EXPLAINING THE CUBAN
MISSILE CRISIS
Michael Useem, THE INNER CIRCLE: LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THE
RISE OF BUSINESS POLITICAL ACTIVITY IN THE U.S. AND U.K.
John P. Fernandez, RACISM AND SEXISM IN CORPORATE LIFE:
CHANGING VALUES IN AMERICAN BUSINESS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
To be specified in the first
class meeting.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Students who do
not have SOC 151 may enroll with the permission of the
instructor.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting
or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the
first class, they will be dropped from the class list.
NOTE: Students must still submit a completed DROP/ADD form
to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC
Prerequisites:
SOC 151
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
GOVERNMENT BUREAU, by George Tooker, captures the
impersonality of bureaucracies
Reference:
Robertson, Ian. SOCIOLOGY, 3rd ed., New York: Worth
Publishers, Inc., 1987
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