SOC 340Complex Organizations
- Faculty
- Arts
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1964–65 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Examines the role of large-scale organizations in industrial society, and their impact and influence. Illustrations will be drawn from commerce and industry, as well as education, health services, and government.
As printed in the 1980–81 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1964–65 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1980–81 to 1994–95 15 calendars
Examines the role of large-scale organizations in industrial society, and their impact and influence. Illustrations will be drawn from commerce and industry, as well as education, health services, and government.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1966–67 to 1979–80 14 calendars
Titled Formal Organizations.
A survey of theory and research on formal organizations making use of selected contributions from the scientific management and human relations approaches, but with emphasis on the structure and functions of large scale organizations. The nature and types of formal organizations; control techniques and leadership; relations of the organization to its clients and publics; informal aspects of the organization; organizational tensions and pathologies of bureaucratic systems; how the organization adjusts to change.
Not in the 1965–66 calendar.
1964–65 1 calendar
Titled Formal Organizations.
The structure and function of large scale organizations in various institutional settings including organization, bureaucratic pathology.
3 lectures, half course.