SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Academic Freedom
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But his view of the ideal-type bureaucracy gives us a standard against which to measure the degree to which a particular organization is bureaucratized. What we find when we examine a variety of formal organizations is that some are more bureaucratic than others. And even within a particular organization, some departments may be more bureaucratic than others. It is easier to be highly bureaucratized (for example, to follow the rule book exactly) when the environment is regular and predictable. Thus, for example, we would expect that the part of the university that is organized to bill students to be fairly bureaucratized because the work is routine and predictable. On the other hand, academic departments, such as the department of sociology, are likely to be less bureaucratized. First, you will likely have a large number of employees with phds, and these folks do not take kindly to others telling them what to teach or research.
