EXAM 3 (Sub Sultures)

Question 1

8 Things about “Sub Cultures”?

Answer 1

1. Distinctive
2. Form and adapt over time for environment
3. Develop distinctive ideologies and practices
4. Present their members with dilemmas of identity
5. Complex systems that are multiple, diverse, interacting
6. Over time subcultures become increasingly stable, exclusive, elitist, ethnocentric
7. Post challenges for functionalist management
8. Form important contexts of Socialization

Question 2

What are two things in “subcultures” that can blend work and leisure?

Answer 2

1. Personal Characteristics

2. Biographical Experiences

Question 3

What are 3 ways subcultures are differentiated?

Answer 3

1. Function
2. Geography
3. Hierarchy

Question 4

What is “Function” in different subcultures?

Answer 4

Execution of functions, (The way different jobs are done by different subcultures)

Question 5

What is “Geography” in different subcultures?

Answer 5

People who work in a corporation, in a different devision of company, located in different country, has sub cultures.

Question 6

What is “Hierarchy” in different subcultures?

Answer 6

People who don’t share the same rank, often form sub cultures, like senior management.

Question 7

Because of the complex systems of OC’s what are 3 ways to encourage researchers view ofOC?

Answer 7

1. Integrated
2. Differentiated
3. Fragmented

Question 8

What is “Integration” in alternative OC views?

Answer 8

Different points of view that would be fixed (Members of large culture have consensus)

Question 9

What is “Differentiated” in alternative OC views?

Answer 9

Differing points of view, have more weight. Cultures are differentiated if their are differences between sub cultures, but within sub cultures, people have relative consensus. (Members of the large culture has different consensus.

Question 10

What is “Fragmentation” in alternative OC views?

Answer 10

(Dont have unity within.) sub cultures are relatively discunnected with lots of confusion and ambiguity. (Likely to be thin and precarious.) (Ex- Just because there is a consensus on issue x on Monday, does not mean there is consensus on issue Y on Tuesday)

Question 11

What 6 things to OSC’s become over time?

Answer 11

1. Stable
2. Exclusive
3. Elitist
4. Ethnocentric
5. Establish distinctive relationship with O’s dominant
6. Establish distinctive relationships