Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) • Sociologie

This document contains detailed notes on the material that was discussed during the lectures. The exam for the course Organisations and Society is an open-book essay exam. During such an exam, you don't have time to read through all your notes, trying to find the answer. To make it easier, the notes are clearly structured and I added a table of contents at the beginning of the document, so that you can easily find the information you need in order to answer the questions.

This is a summary of all mandatory chapters (1 through 9) of Nettleton's book 'The Sociology of Health and Illness' for the course of Medical Sociology. It is written entirely in English.

All lectures of Organisation and Society

Readings of Organisation and Society, all the readings necessary for the exam.

Dit is een samenvatting van alle literatuur van Sociale welvaart, dus het bevat alle artikelen en de hoofdstukken uit het boek van Offer. Het is in het Engels geschreven. De artikelen die erin staan, zijn: - Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress (Stiglitz, Sen, and Fitoussi) - Design and meaning of the genuine progress indicator: a statistical analysis of the U.S. fifty- state model (Fox and Erickson) - Developments in the measurement of subj...

This is a summary of all the required literature of Organisation and Society. It is completely written in English. It contains all the required literature, including: - Isomorphism, diffusion, and decoupling: concept evolution and theoretical challenges (Boxenbaum and Jonsson) - Imprinting: toward a multilevel theory (Marquis and Tilcsik) - Difficult decoupling: employee resistance to the commercialization of personal settings (Turco) - Gaffers, gofers, and grips: role-based coordinatio...

This is a summary of all the required and further readings of Social and institutional change. It is written in English. It contains the required and further readings, including: - Comparing theories of institutional change (Kingston and Caballero) - Five rules for the evolution of cooperation (Nowak) - Models of the welfare state (Manow) - Culture and welfare state policies: reflections on a complex interrelation (Pfau-Effinger) - Immigration and welfare states: a survey of 15 years of ...

College notes Application of Theories. The lectures about the assignment were not included in its entirety.

Samenvatting readings Apllication of Theories. De vier teksten zijn: Chapter 4 “Where Have All the Criminals Gone?” of: Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2006). Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. HarperCollins. - Chapter 2 “Syllogistic Logic” of: Gensler, H. J. (2010). Introduction to Logic. Routledge. - Chapter 1 “A Survey of Some Fundamental Problems” of: Popper, K. (2005)[1959]. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge. - Chapter 4 “So...

This is a summary of all the required literature for Application of theories. This includes a summary of the articles of Levitt and Dubner, Gensler, Popper, and Schelling. I have summarized these articles in English.