What is Social Organization?

Ø      Social Organization

“An organization means technical arrangement of parts. Social organization means social relationship among groups. Individuals and groups interrelated together create social organization.”  JJ Macionis

Formal Organization

“Formal Organization or secondary groups that are organized to achieve their goals efficiently.” JJ Macionis

Types of Formal Organization

1.      Normative Organization/ Voluntary associations

2.      Coercive Organization

3.      Utilitarian Organization

Origins of Formal Organizations

Bureaucracy (Weber’s Rational Social Organization)

Characteristics of Bureaucracy

1.      Specialization

2.      Hierarchy of offices

3.      Rules and regulations

4.      Technical Competence

5.      Impersonality

6.      Formal, written communication

The informal side of Bureaucracy

Problems of Bureaucracy

1.      Bureaucratic Alienation

2.      Bureaucratic Inefficiency and Ritualism

3.      Bureaucratic Inertia

4.      Oligarchy