A Good Example of the Application of Symbolic Interactionism to Organizations

question 121

Multiple Choice

A good example of the application of symbolic interactionism to organizations is the classic study by Anselm Strauss and his colleagues of organizational behavior in two Chicago-area psychiatric hospitals. These researchers treated a formal organization as a(n)

• A) negotiated order.
• B) backstage behavior.
• C) frontstage behavior.
• D) imaginary entity.

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