ORST 114 PZ -Social Change and Organizations

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course explores the role of organizations in transformational social change, broadly speaking. It provides students with a comprehensive understanding of how organizations within various sectors in society such as media, tech, education, politics, and non-profit, become essential elements of modern society and how these organizations influence social institutions. In this context, we will learn about social order, social stratification, inequality, power, and the social movements that create their own organizational structures in their quest for social change. We take a critical and structural perspective to social change and understand it as both actions that propel society in new directions as well as actions that maintain the fundamental structures of society and the social order even in the midst of active resistance to those structures. We will use case studies of organizations to illuminate these issues.

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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