SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Organizational Chart, Traditional Authority, Mcdonaldization

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Bureaucracy: tallahassee"s police headquarters, story about losing license pate, dmv, time waiting at dmv taking forever, bureaucracy has a bad name, looking at affordable care act. Chart done by republicans- incomprehensibly complex, wasteful, and uncaring: why do we have bureaucracies if they are so bad, max weber. Argued authority took 3 forms- charismatic leadership: power- getting someone to do something you don"t want to do, 1. Charisma: root coming from being touched by god, someone who is a natural leader, people are drawn to the person in charge, ex: was adolf hitler, they have power to inspire. Ex: martin luther king jr: he becomes a visible figure for rights, communities start reaching out to him because of his work, has power because of who he is, problem of succession. Ex: queen victoria- oldest surviving child of her father so she was next in line. Ex: constitution stating what happened if the president dies exct.