Organizational Culture: Types, Subcultures, and Socialization
Types of Culture
Some organizations have a dominant culture, while others have multiple cultures simultaneously. Culture can be bureaucratic, where rules, policies, and procedures are formalized and regulated. Characteristics of these organizations include certainty, hierarchy, and strict organization.
Culture Features
- Clan: Being part of a working family, continuing tradition and ritual, teamwork and spirit, self-direction, and social influence. Members help each other.
- Culture-based business: Innovation,
Levinson’s Stages of Adult Male Development
Sociology
Adult Male Development
Psychologist Daniel Levinson and his colleagues at Yale University undertook an intensive long-term study to determine the adult male development stages.
The research team, including psychologists, sociologists, and psychiatrists, conducted in-depth interviews with 40 men between the ages of 35 and 45, across four broad occupational categories.
A life structure is the combination of status, roles, activities, goals, values, beliefs, and life circumstances that characterize
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Enhancing Teaching Skills
Teaching skills include variation of stimuli, awareness as introduction, integration of knowledge, nonverbal silence, strengthening motivation, and sequential learning.
Conclusions
Theoretical and conceptual learning has limited impact on skills, competencies, attitudes, values, and feelings. Support with other methods is crucial, such as prior cases or simulations, post-gate synthesis simulations, and substitute readings for discussion. Finding a suitable teacher can be difficult.
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Biological Theories of Crime and Deviance
Biological theories attempt to explain crime and deviance by examining biological characteristics.
Theory of the Born Criminal: Broca and Lombroso
Broca and Lombroso believed that the types of offenders could be identified by the shape of the skull. They accepted the influence of learning in criminal behavior but believed that most criminals were biologically degenerate or abnormal. Subsequently, theories were developed to explain the family tree and the hereditary
Read MoreSociology Terms and Concepts: A Comprehensive List
Sociological Terms and Concepts
Autonomous State
A theoretical model of the state that interprets the state as developing interests of its own, independent of other interests.
Sexual Behavior
Functional for society because it prevents the instability and conflict that more liberal sexual attitudes supposedly generate.
Rationalization
The process whereby some nationality is assigned what are perceived to be race characteristics.
Semiperipheral Countries
Semi-industrialized countries that represent a kind
Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Symptoms, Stages, and Care
Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
Understanding Vascular Dementia
Vascular dementia is an anatomoclinical syndrome resulting from cerebral arterial lesions with different pathophysiological mechanisms, such as ischemia, hypertension, cardiac disorders, hematologic disorders, and bleeding. Symptoms typically have a sudden onset and a fluctuating course. Patients often present with extensive neurological deficits, but their personality may be partially or totally conserved.