Scientific management is an attempt to apply scientific methods to the extremely complex problem of controlling labor in continually expanding capitalist enterprises. Its main goal is to improve productivity of the workers. The theory of the scientific management lacks the features of true science as its hypothesis reflects only the…
Category: Sociology
Social Problems of Institution of Marriage and Family
Sociology deals with the origin, development, organization, and activities of society of people and individual behavior in this society. This science investigates social institutions and their influence on society. Thus, modern society faces numerous social problems that change its values and traditions. A great variety of social institutions are the…
Deviance and Labeling Theory
Every society is unique in its way; however, with the globalization effect, the world has been made smaller making diverse individuals interact at different levels. Each society has stipulated some norms that people are bound to follow, for instance, when one gets into a lift, he/she will have to turn…
Deviant Behavior and Social Control
It is difficult to imagine the world without social control, ensuring of which can be regarded as one of the main functions of social institutes. Social control is the standard regulation of people’s behavior in social systems. In turn, the phenomenon, which does not correspond with a framework of social…
Social Pressure
Psychology of behavior is a subject that aims to determine the reasons and consequences of human actions based on attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. As a result of the Stanford prison experiment, Philip Zimbardo concluded that the situation affects the behavior of a person more than internal features. It showed…