Formal Organizations: Crash Course Sociology #17

Today we are exploring the world of formal organizations. We’ll go back to the historical process of rationalization and its impact on organizations in the form of bureaucracy and then discuss how organizations change in response to their organizational environment. We will also go over the negative consequences of rationalization in organizations.

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[charlimartin]

I love how the word "bureaucracy" has come to mean the exact opposite of what the definition says they're supposed to be.

[nikogg]

Do Crash Course Anthropology please! Who agrees?

[bewareofnikhil]

I love how sociology is like the most objective of all subjects!

[caioxavier]

This episode was very clarifying! Crash course international relations would be simply amazing as well!

[roeiertje]

the process is all, the process is everything. ALL HAIL THE PROCESS!

[atheistickhan]

The people in power are isolated / Separated from the people who elected them and even if they are voted out they become exactly the people they replace .


Make Sense, I subscribe to it . That explain why we're politically in square 1 over again and again .

[KathyTrithardt]

I got hung up on the fun fact that what you call floating, we call tubing. Yay for regional differences! * unpauses the video and goes back to learning *

[marmarjello]

I've done a presentation about McDonaldization for school and it's so interesting to compare the information I obtained then to the contents of this video.

[billyte]

3:40 Faith is always damaging. Bureaucracies get bogged down because not enough time is spent improving and optimizing the rules. They fall back to the traditionalism of stagnant rules just like organizations of old. Kinda makes you wonder if the distinction made here between modern and pre-modern organizations is at all clear cut. And sounds like "irrationality of rationality" touches on that.

[osaleh]

Does anyone know where we can suggest new CC series? This episode got me really interested to see a CC political science happening next year!

[plasticturnipboy]

Somewhere, sometime Orwell and Kafka are going: "Well, duh!".

[simonkramer]

I really love your videos and the knowledge your giving is very important

[davidjalieh]

I love you. You are better than my sociology classes at university my God

[schmalls]

Thank you, thank you so much for the videos and knowledge, it helps so much in passing this class. Keep it up!

[africkle]

@crashcourse could you develop a further reading list for your courses? Or does one already exist?

[cultibotics]

Rational != 'everything up for grabs'

[Chrome]

Wow, I just learned so much about the job I've been doing for the past two years. I try really hard not to act like a bureaucrat despite all the red tape around me, and now I know why my team's counter-culture attitude towards the austerity is helping to fix a really widespread problem that isn't just in my company.

[oslonorway]

_Crash Course Notification Army_ doesn't require formal organization to function. We exist without a bureaucracy.

[jimtuv]

I wonder if this is why there is a growing dissatisfaction with centralized political, corporate, and economic power in both the US and Europe? What would happen if we slowly decentralized?

[heathercalun]

Could you do an episode about beuraucratic structuring that was designed for a post-industrial world? Have any social engineers created a protocol for empowering workers to make judgements about overriding the protocol?