Industrial organization patterns shaped schools, hospitals, and family life

Evidence

This was the crucible of mass society, its hierarchical authority, and its centralized bureaucratic forms of public and private power, all of it haunted by the specters of conformity, obedience, and human standardization. Lives were defined by institutions that mirrored industrial organization: schools, hospitals, and even aspects of family and domestic life, in which ages and stages were understood as functions of the industrial system, from training to retirement. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1108

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional isomorphism — that schools/hospitals mirror workplace bureaucracy — echoes Weberian rationalization and connects to the modern workplace surveillance literature. — connects to: Bureaucracy is a stylized model of society’s positional structure — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 189; Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata; Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions

Broader Connections

• Bureaucracy is a stylized model of society’s positional structure #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 189
• Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata #exemplifies (0.75)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #corroborates (0.70)