Institutions Between Social Life and Symbolic System
Institutions Between Social Life and Symbolic System

Summary/Abstract: The concept of scientific management introduced in history of sociology by Frederick Winslow Taylor considered that “the principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee”. Max Weber’s organizational theory distinguished three pure types of authorities and organizations: charismatic, traditional and bureaucracy. The institutions are composed by symbolic elements, social activities and material resources, being characterized by social durability and relative resistance on change. Also, the institutions have the tendency to transmit theirs systems of value from generation to generation. Sociological interrogation concerning institutions and organisations focuses on the internal processes or mechanisms of the company which led to the incorporation, maintenance and stabilisation of institutions; institutions modify and generally influence social life.

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