Overview
Description
Sociology of modern large-scale organizations with emphasis on government agencies, corporations, political parties and labor unions.
Requirements
Prerequisites
SOC 101
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): SOC 101.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Spring
Terms
fall, spring
Core
CO11
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- critically analyze organizations and organizational behavior in global contexts.
- identify and analyze the impacts of organizations on the American society and other societies globally.
- demonstrate how theories of organizations developed in the United States (or the West in general) may not adequately explain the behavior, structure and performance of complex organizations and public bureaucracies in developing countries.
- articulate and evaluate how historical, political, social and cultural contexts shape the structure of contemporary organizations and public bureaucracies in the United States and globally.
- contextualize how globalization has enabled transnational (or global) corporations (based in the U.S. and other developed countries) to “outsource” the delivery of their services or “to relocate” the manufacturing of the products to developing countries with inexpensive skilled labor.