SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Outsourcing, Externality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Max weber and bureaucracy weber"s theory of bureaucracy. Still slavery around the world, not just what some call wage slavery. Traditional bureaucracy: often simplify and use the word bureaucracy to only mean the kinds of bureaucracies that we are familiar with, pre-modern traditional bureaucracies also had a big role in human life everywhere in the world. Key characteristic of traditional bureaucracy is that its not modern in terms of the structures of class, status and power. Instead of the notion of citizenship that we take for granted in north america and europe. Kings were commanders in chief; but the nation was often depicted as a goddess. Legal persons created by bureaucracy: weber tried to get away from rigid thinking about sociological phenomena like traditional and modern bureaucracies. Lecture 10: his method followed a logic that downplayed the idea that the phenomena we study are easy to label as a or not a, a or b, etc.