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Created: July 29, 2003
Latest Update: September 14, 2003
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Soc. 328-01: Agencies: Week 4
Preparations for Class and Internet Discussions

Week 4: Week of September 15, 2003

• Topic: Structural Frame

  Individuals live and function in social groups. Our community, or our organization, or our family, is made up of many interpersonal relationships. The nature of those interrelationships seriously affects the nature of the resulting community. In this section we are going to look at the different kinds of interpersonal relationships possible and the different kinds of social groups that result from them.

• Preparatory Readings:

  • Social Agencies W.I. Thomas, "Social Agencies", Chapter 5 in The Unadjusted Girl with cases and standpoint for behavior analysis. Boston: Little Brown and Company, (1923): 151-221. This reading serves as historical background for our focus. I'll get up discussion sections for this reading, which I had up for last week, but we didn't have time to discuss it. It's long. Skim through it so you will be able to relate to the discussion.

  • The Manager's Job: Folklore or Fact Chapter 1 in Henry Mintzberg, Mintzberg on Management, 1989. Focus on Folklore and Facts; scroll about two inches down the file. Discussion this week. Sorry about last week.

  • Text from which I will lecture: Foundations of Administrative Law, Peter H. Schuck. Foundation Press; (February 1994). * ISBN: 1566629985. I used this for a text the last time I taught the course. It wasn't available this time, though used copies are out there. It's very law-oriented. For that reason some of you might prefer his more recent book below. Lecture and discussion this week. jeanne

  • I also recommend Peter H. Schuck's Diversity in America : Keeping Government at a Safe Distance

    Boland and Deal, as far as we can get up to Chapter 5.

• Lecture:

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  • Lecture discussion and student responses from September 1999.
  • Sample Rewrite on Theory to Policy to Practice and Back, Fall 1999. Suggestions to improve submissions for Mid-Term, which we try not to have in 2003. But the rewrite still works to earn you a better grade.

• Concepts:

• Discussion Questions:

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• Some Recommended Activities for Academic Assessment:

  1. The Worst Boss I Ever Had: Share the story. Identify the formal organization and the informal organization. Competence misdirected or incompetence? The work team's solution? Did they go around him to other departments? Did they create informal paths around her? Was answerability a possibility?

  2. The Best Boss I Ever Had: Share the story. Identify the formal organization and the informal organization. Competence misdirected or incompetence? The work team's solution? Did they go around him to other departments? Did they create informal paths around her? Was answerability a possibility?

  3. Show and Tell: Use an inconspicuous camera that won't raise hackles at the work scene. Take some shots of the outside and the interior of the workplace. Take a shot of the entrance that a stranger would encounter. Put three or four photos together and tell us the story of how your workplace appears to others, to you? Does it look like a helping place?

  4. People who Fall through the Cracks: Who tends to be left out of dialogic answerability at your work place? Do some people use monologic non-answerability? To everyone? Or just to some groups? What effect does this have on the workplace.
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  Week 5: Week of September 22, 2003
  Topic: