Formal Organizations: Crash Course Sociology

The video explores formal organizations, their types, and their role in society. It discusses the transition from traditional to rational worldviews, focusing on bureaucracies and their efficiency. The video highlights problems like red tape and alienation, and examines scientific management and modern challenges. It concludes with the concept of McDonaldization and the irrationality of rationality.

What are some of the challenges that American formal organizations have faced in the last century?

Explain the concept of McDonaldization of society as described by George Ritzer.

In what ways have organizational hierarchies changed in the transition to a post-industrial economy?