An interview is when an interviewer ask specific questions to a selected person in order to get information about a certain topic. Positives to interviewing a person would be more personal responses given by the person for a specific topic and also the person can go more in depth with answers. Negatives to interviewing a person would be the possibility of the person lying about answers given and also a small sample size. I had the opportunity to personally interview a person. The person that I interviewed is Mike, a middle aged white male. The interview that I had with the individual was over the phone and lasted thirty minutes. The questions asked in the interview were: what are the most noticeable changes in American culture that have occurred
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In regarding the previous comment made about technology and the internet as being the most noticeable change in American culture, Mike explains that he thinks that technology improvement occurred because of the need for it. Computers were needed to run equipment in factories and also to improve communication in companies. The improved technology also allows for better efficiency. Better communication allows businesses to become more efficient and make companies greater. This idea is similar to Weber’s idea of rationalization. Rationalization, in the workforce, is having a routine that employees follow to make work efficiency better. An example of rationalization are the routines that McDonald employees have to follow. Leidner explains that “McDonald’s had routinized the work of its crews so thoroughly that decision making had practically been eliminated from the jobs… Many of the noninteractive parts of the window worker 's job had been made idiot-proof through automation” Leidner 1993: 471). For the McDonald’s franchise to be successful and grow, the restaurants have to be efficient to get the maximum profits. By establishing routines, the workers are able to be more efficient with minimal error. By allowing people to think less on the job and replacing them with machines, the work can be more efficient due to less thinking and less errors. With the increase in the development of better technology, companies can utilize the machines to …show more content…
The biggest problem facing American society today, in Mike’s opinion, are people’s work ethic and entitlement. He describes that when people graduate from high school/college they think they deserve to make a lot of money and not work a lot. Mike said that we, as a society, have created an environment where people think they do not have to work hard or not at all and make money. People think that participating or showing up to work should allow them to be successful and not work hard. As a society we have “pussified” ourselves, when in reality people need to work hard and start at the bottom to eventually work their way up to the top in order to obtain a high salary. An example that Mike made was the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, people did whatever it took to find jobs. They worked their hardest to make money. To fix this issue that is occurring in American society, society needs to establish an ideology of hard work equaling to success and that no hard work equals repercussions. There should be an environment in which it is uncomfortable to be lazy and cannot be easy for people that don’t try hard. By establishing this environment, the government should not back lazy people. People should also learn how to properly allocate their money given a certain salary. Minimum wage should not get you new three-hundred dollar shoes. Hand-me-downs should
In regarding the previous comment made about technology and the internet as being the most noticeable change in American culture, Mike explains that he thinks that technology improvement occurred because of the need for it. Computers were needed to run equipment in factories and also to improve communication in companies. The improved technology also allows for better efficiency. Better communication allows businesses to become more efficient and make companies greater. This idea is similar to Weber’s idea of rationalization. Rationalization, in the workforce, is having a routine that employees follow to make work efficiency better. An example of rationalization are the routines that McDonald employees have to follow. Leidner explains that “McDonald’s had routinized the work of its crews so thoroughly that decision making had practically been eliminated from the jobs… Many of the noninteractive parts of the window worker 's job had been made idiot-proof through automation” Leidner 1993: 471). For the McDonald’s franchise to be successful and grow, the restaurants have to be efficient to get the maximum profits. By establishing routines, the workers are able to be more efficient with minimal error. By allowing people to think less on the job and replacing them with machines, the work can be more efficient due to less thinking and less errors. With the increase in the development of better technology, companies can utilize the machines to …show more content…
The biggest problem facing American society today, in Mike’s opinion, are people’s work ethic and entitlement. He describes that when people graduate from high school/college they think they deserve to make a lot of money and not work a lot. Mike said that we, as a society, have created an environment where people think they do not have to work hard or not at all and make money. People think that participating or showing up to work should allow them to be successful and not work hard. As a society we have “pussified” ourselves, when in reality people need to work hard and start at the bottom to eventually work their way up to the top in order to obtain a high salary. An example that Mike made was the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, people did whatever it took to find jobs. They worked their hardest to make money. To fix this issue that is occurring in American society, society needs to establish an ideology of hard work equaling to success and that no hard work equals repercussions. There should be an environment in which it is uncomfortable to be lazy and cannot be easy for people that don’t try hard. By establishing this environment, the government should not back lazy people. People should also learn how to properly allocate their money given a certain salary. Minimum wage should not get you new three-hundred dollar shoes. Hand-me-downs should