Assignment:
Examine several social groups or organizations to which you belong or have belonged (school, government, family, religious, special interest club, and so forth). Prepare a 700 to 1,050 word paper explaining the role of the group and the social functions it supports or promotes. Be sure to define the groups that you select in terms of primary and secondary classifications. If you can deem the group can a reference group, consider how this group affects or has affected your life personally and/or professionally?
If you select any organizations for your analysis, consider Weber's five characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy and suggest which (if any) of the characteristics are directly applicable to your organization. From personal experience, examine the positive and negative ramifications of operating within a bureaucratic structure. This is a research paper and you must follow the APA requirements and these following points to receive full credit for your work:
1. Your introduction must have an overview of what you will be writing in the paper, giving the reader some information to guide him or her.
2. Your paper needs to be organized. Your ideas should not be presented randomly without thought to order. Divide your work according to subjects and identify them with sub-titles.
3. You need to have a conclusion. Do not add new information at the end of the paper. You need to summarize the main points of the paper.
4. This paper must have references to follow your paper with regard to these requirements: a) 3 sociological sources from the UOP electronic library, 2) your textbook can be used only as the fourth source, 3) dictionaries are not a scientific tool and do not use them as a source to support your paper.