SOCY 2115

Introduction to Organizations

The ubiquity of formal organizations is a distinctively modem phenomenon. Today, organizations not only dictate activities at the workplace, but also exert profound impacts on nearly all aspects of modem life. As one of the most vibrant and fast growing branches of the discipline, organizational sociology provides the conceptual tools to understand a variety of organizational processes. In this course, you are introduced to some of the basic concepts and topics in organizational sociology. Special emphases will be placed on the social impacts of organizations.

Units: 3.0