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NEW PARADIGM OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Social
organizations are usually considered as artificial formal social systems
created with a definite purpose. However, this description is too narrow,
because it does not take into account natural organizations that arise
spontaneously during self-organizing, without a definite purpose. Therefore,
there is a necessity to use new wider paradigm of social organization in spite
of old one √ narrow rationalistic. We can describe the social organization as
the rather steady social integrity (social generality), showing reasonable
behavior similarly to alive organism. This reasonable behavior is understood as
ability of organization to respond adequately the challenges, or ability to
reveal and to solve social problems (deviation from social norms).
Such a wide
understanding of social organization leaves the subject field of the
traditional theory of organizations and sociology of organizations and requires
development of new sociology of organizations, which would be a part of general
sociology. Object of research of new sociology of organizations should be not
only artificial formal organizations, but also natural and naturally -
artificial organizations, including families, settlements, cities, parties,
nations, societies, global communities. The natural organizations are a
consequence of the social relations between people, when "social
facts" and "social forces" are appearing during interpersonal
interactions, and they render regulating influence on the group members. These
"social facts" in aggregate form the social mechanism of organization
that has latent or half hidden character. The naturally - artificial
organizations are partially developing in natural way, and partially √ in
artificial.
The social
mechanism exists in each organization, its main function is the revealing and
solving of social problems, due to what the integrity and stability of social
organization is provided. Complication of kinds of organizations during social
evolution is explained by complication of their social mechanisms as a result
of accumulation and increase of a variety═
of "building material" such as ⌠social facts" and other
samples of organizational culture.
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