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charisma
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literally, an extraordinary gift from god; more commonly, an outstanding "magnetic" personality
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bureaurcracy
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a formal organization with a hierarchy of authority, a clear division of labor; emphasis on written rules, communications, and records, and impersonality of positions
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voluntary association
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a group made up of people who voluntarily organize on the basis of some mutual interest, also known as voluntary memberships
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Marx Alienation
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worker's lack of connection to the product of their labor; caused by their being assigned repetitive tasks on a small part of a product-this leads to a sense of powerlessness and normlessness
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peter principle
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laurence peter proposed that each employee of a bureaucracy is promoted to his or her level of incompetence
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goal change
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the adoption of new goals by an organization
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formal organization
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a secondary group designed to achieve explicit objectives
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michel
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robert michels cointed the term the iron law of ogligarchy to refer to how organization come to be dominated by a small, self perpetuationg elite
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quality circles
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consists of workers and a manager or two who meet regulary to try timprove the quality of both working conditions and the companys products
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Ritzer
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talks about the "mcdonaldization" of society which ordinary aspects of life become rationalized and efficiency comes to rule them
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ethnicity
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having distinctive and cultural characteristics
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race
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physical characteristics that distinguish one group from the other
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genocide
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the systematic annhilation or attempted of a people based on race or ethnicity
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assimilation
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the process of being absorbed into the main stream culture
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institutional discrimination
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negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a societys institutions
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adorno
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authoritarian personality- theodor adorno's term for people who are prjudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors
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capitalism
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an economic system characterized by the private ownership of the means of production, the pursuit of profit, and market competition
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socialism
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an economic system characterized by the public ownership of the means of production, central planning, and the distribution of goods without a profit motive
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meritocracy
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a form of social stratification in which all positions are awarded on the basis of merit
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oligarchy
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a form of government in which power held by a small group of individuals; the rule of the main by the few
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