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Class number:
3190
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Title: Exit, Voice & Power |
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Department: Formal Organizations |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 18 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, UNASSIGNED - |
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Instructor(s): Stringham, Edward |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
Course Description:
Although individuals form organizations to advance collective goals, oftentimes some members of organizations use power at the expense of others. Albert Hirschman analyzed ways in which members use voice or exit to agitate and exert influence for change. Students will study ways in which structures and organizational setups perpetuate power and study examples of non-coercive cooperative alternatives. An emphasis will be on historical New England and NY based normative organizations including the New England Non-Resistance Society of William Lloyd Garrison, the Women's Peace Society (Helen Frances Garrison Villard), and the Catholic Worker Movement(Dorothy Day),& some modern examples. Students will explore the role of individual and collective agency in social transformation will learn imagine alternative possible systems in modern times. |