@article{Metz_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Sociology of School Organization}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociology-of-school-organization}, abstractNote={This course examines schools in the United States from the perspective of their functioning as organizations. As organizations, schools have much in common with social units as diverse as General Motors, the Internal Revenue Service, the neighborhood grocery store, and a local church. Such different organizations have importantly similar elements, but also many features that differ. The character of particular organizations is shaped by their goals, by the kind of work that is done within them, and by the social context with which they interact and which grants them legitimacy. Their internal lives are also shaped by the kinds of social structure they develop (at the simplest level their "organizational chart), by the structures of control that are legitimated and employed, and by the common meanings or common culture that are imported from the larger society but fostered and given their own character within the organization. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Metz, M.H.}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }