ANT 267 - Corporate Cultures

Course Units: 1

(Not offered in 2014-15) This course provides an overview of the theories and methods of the anthropological study of organizations and organizational culture: the perspective that organizations and subsets within organizations develop their own ideological, sociopolitical, and material culture. This perspective can be used to understand the full range of organizations: large and small, corporate and non-profit, government and non-government, local and multinational. An understanding of organizational culture offers a means to organize information, symbols, values, and people in ways that influence planning, evaluation, policy, regulatory issues, and resource allocation. Through readings, discussion, guest speakers, and participant observation, students will become familiar with how organized culture can impede or enhance productivity and the success of organizations. Electives (only one cross-listed course can count for the major or minor)