SOCIOL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Traditional Authority, Mcdonaldization, Rationality
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Traditional authority is based on the person, it"s something that"s ascribed. Weber says that this is limiting because you can"t delegate authority if it exists. Multiple levels of authority - the line of control flow down. Division of labor: one person doesn"t have to do everything. It"s not like traditional power, the idea power can be given and not just one sour. The d of l is integrated, each person is related immediately to the person next. Weberian rationality and ritzer"s concept of mcdonaldization (know this for th. Know why rational positions is based on irrationality. More emphasis on the means of rationality and not the ends. Bureaucracy t exists in the question one source has it on next to thm. People in a big bureaucracy don"t care about getting the whole job done (irrationalit about what they"re in charge for (rational). People who work for fema have to put down names.
