Report of Class Observations

Emergence into a new culture requires courage, toppled with humiliation. Despite the energy or the will, unfamiliar territory/language and events present unrelenting and unavoidable tensions. Hispanic students encounter teachers who fail to support them in maintaining aspects of their cultural identity. For some ELL students honoring and respecting another’s culture may diminish some of the struggles these students face.

This class has not only reinforced my cultural beliefs, but it has also challenged some preconceived notions of all cultures. I am a first generation Mexican American. My parents were born in Mexico and came to American 25 years ago. In contrast, I was born and raised in California with my older and younger brother. My brothers and I constantly struggled between two distinctive cultural norms— the Mexican culture, and the American culture. My parents are from a small town called San Juan De Los Lagos in Jalisco, Mexico. San Juan is centered on religion¬– it is the home of La Virgin De San Juan, Henceforth, both of my parents were reinforced with strict religious values. My mother attended an all girls catholic primary school. My father was less fortunate and had to attend public primary school, however, since San Juan is grounded on religion, public schools also integrated reliogious values. My parents constantly compare and complain about the lack of values schools in the Unites States teach in their curriculum. Things like: respect your elders, and proper etiquette skills. Due to stricter boundaries here in the U.S, I can see why integrated such things can become problematic. For example, both of my parents experienced physically getting scolded with a ruler for things like: talking back to professors, being disruptive, and even for having dirty fingernails or a messy appearance. Although my parents were raised in strict catholic environments, they have not reinforced

Getting my new text and being filled with curiosity is always a great feeling prior to starting a class; Cultural Anthropology, such a foreign topic, so I thought. Once I began to read the first few chapters of the book I began to recognize words and details that I have previously been introduced too. Thinking back to when and what classes I have had the same experience, I recall Multicultural Counseling and Psychology. Stepping out my comfort zone is what really came to mind. Growing up in a society that has changed so much over the years you would think that I would be used to it; however, asking to look at your community with a different set of eyes is uncomfortable and brings feelings of disbelief most of the time.

If group is deemed a reference group, consider how this group affects or hasaffected your lifepersonally and/or professionally? If you select any organizations for youranalysis, 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.

The term bureaucracy was coined by a well-known sociologist named Max Weber in 1947. He used this term to describe corporations that held five main characteristics. These characteristics include, hierarchical authority structure, a division of labor, written rules, written communications and records, and impersonality and replaceability. In the modern day world, it is easy to see several bureaucracies in place, however, one bureaucracy that is personally close to all Grand Canyon University students is the institution of Grand Canyon University (GCU). This is a great example of a bureaucracy due to the fact that it embraces all five characteristics of a bureaucracy.

“Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are hardest to destroy. Bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action. Therefore, as an instrument of rationally organizing authority relations, bureaucracy was and is a powerful instrument of the first order for one who controls the bureaucratic apparatus. Under otherwise equal conditions, rationally and directed action (Gesellschaftshandeln) is superior to every kind of collective behavior (Massenhandeln) and also social action (Gemeinschaftshandeln) opposing it. Where administration has been completely bureaucratized, the resulting system of domination is practically indestructible,” (Weber, 1922, p.336-337).

In today’s modern society the bureaucracy system is very well used in many work fields. This form of set up is depended on when that particular work setting needs to be administratively organize as it involves a vast number of employees that depend on one another. Most organizations truly need this system to be able to function as it assists in assuring that a large group of people working with each other in a suited way and clarifying everyone 's responsibility within a hierarchy. Universities are one of the most known public sector to use the bureaucracy system. Without this system present within a university, the capability of educating 20,000 plus students is seen as impossible. Being a student assistant for the department of Educational Psychology and Counseling here at California State University of Northridge I 'm able to witness and experience the bureaucracy system myself.

S/O: Mr. Bill was 20 minutes early for this session. He came in today feeling somewhat tired because he was up late the night before completing school assignments. This led use to discuss his issues with procrastination. He noted the he had not been procrastinating as much because he liked the structure of his psychology courses. We also continued to explore his feelings more globally in his relationship with his wife.

An observation I had on the in-class activity was that I only recognized few aspects in which I am not privileged. As far as intersectionality, I am considered a “double-negative” in which I am black and a woman; however, I did not take into consideration privileges that I am such as my sexuality, ability, and age. I feel I failed to realize these forms of privilege because I am not discriminated in those arenas, so I hardly recognize them. If at any point I was discriminated for being heterosexual, able-bodied, or as a young-adult, I would pay more attention to those factors.

This mini-class is going to expand a little on what you learned about floats in the RPGDU class and will be introducing more CSS transitions for you to use in your coding. In the last few classes you have been learning about absolute and relative positioning and while this is very useful, it means that elements basically ignore one another within their own structure.

Final thoughts: Students behavior can be influenced by many things such as their cultural influences, living situation, and what they are exposed to. Ms. Rollison needs to be aware of the cultural influence that affects the student’s behavior. Every culture is different and it influences how a student will interact and respond to authority. Culture can influence the way they talk with their peers, views on sharing, and the way they act all around. Having many students with different culture background leads to a diverse class with different views on how they act toward their peers.

Abstract: The theory of bureaucracy was proposed and published by Marx Weber (1947). Although there are some studies on this perspective were discussed before him, those theories did not form as systematic theory. After Weber, the issue of bureaucracy becomes a hot topic in the field of social organization. Almost all well-known scholars such as Martin and Henri have published their views on it. Bureaucracy adapted as the traditional organizational model during industrial society, essentially, bureaucracy could exist rational. This essay firstly will review the principle of bureaucracy in organization based on organizational design perspective. Secondly, it will analyze the strengths and weakness of

Bureaucracy is such a form of social organization which is maintained by strict rules and regulations and which has the goal of achieving technical superiority over any other social organization.

The principle of bureaucracy was propounded by a German sociologist by the name Max Weber in the 19th century. According to his study, bureaucracy is a formal system of organization and administration, which is designed to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in organizing (Shafritz, Ott & Jang, 2015). Weber characterized bureaucracy as having a hierarchy or order of authority with explicit rules, a clear division of labor, and impersonality. He emphasized that everything within a hierarchy exists with an aim to achieve a similar goal. Nevertheless, bureaucracies are found at the federal, state, county levels of government, and even at large companies for proper management and organization. In fact, individuals who work for government agencies from the strategic managers to the subordinate are called bureaucrats. However, most of the schools are bureaucratic as they follow the basic principles of bureaucracy as illustrated below.

According to James & George (2008), bureaucracy is a formal system of organization and administration designed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Hanson (1979) defines bureaucracy as “an authority structure based on rational behavior”