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13 Cards in this Set
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Using groups of various sizes, he found that more than one-third of the subjects changed their answers to the wrong answer in order to conform to the group.
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Solomon Asch
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Predicted technological changes would become so rapid tat bureaucracies would be replaced by smaler, more egalitarian groups and organizations.
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Warren Bennis and Philip Slater
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Coined the terms primary group and secondary group
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Charles H. Cooley
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Found that in tightly knit groups the pressures to conform can result in groupthink, which ignores alternative solutions to maintain group harmony.
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Irving Janis
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Studied 37 different gangs, finding several basic similarities such as defined organizational structure and similar goals.
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Marin S. Jankowski
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The axiom that "work expands to fill the time necessary for its completion" is called Parkinson's Law.
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Northcote Parkinson
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Author of Peter Principle where people in formal organizations get promoted to their level of incompetency.
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Lawrence Peter
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In his book, McDonaldization of Society, he showed how numerous businesses are following this fast-food model of standardization.
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George Ritzer
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Researcher on groups. Using the autokinetic effect, he discovered that when subjects were uncertain about their own judgments, they were heavily influenced by groups.
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Muzafer Sherif
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Was one of the sociological pioneers that examined the impact of group size on the nature of social interation.
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Georg Simmel
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Found people often made more high-risk choices as individuals but in a group setting became more cautious.
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James Stoner
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Economist who maintains that in the future, the trend towards debureaucratization will mean that bureaucracies will become smaller.
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Lester Thurow
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Analyzed bureaucracies as a ideal type and described certain features that were common to all bureaucracies
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Max Weber
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