Part one of term paper
Primary groups, which are parents, relatives, and friends, play an important role in our lives. Today, however, we spend most of our time in secondary groups such as schools, factories, government offices, or banks. We refer to these types of organizations as formal organizations, which are large, special purpose groups that are explicitly ...

Part two of term paper
... organizational goals, thus giving way to what we define as bureaucracies. Almost everyone has experienced some aspect of being involved with a bureaucracy in settings such as schools, colleges, religion, and the workplace. The sociologist Max Weber characterized bureaucracies as rationally created formal organizations that dominate modern societies, have hierarchical level of control, and are based on specific rules of procedure. Weber recognized that bureaucracies existed in preindustria ...