SOC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: U.S. Route 3, Gie, Speedstep
17 Oct 2016
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Max weber: rational-legal authority: idea that the way people do things and organize society is rational, rational: not good. Rational is cold, impersonal, based on rules: rational-legal authority: works in the form of bureaucracies. This form of social organization would eventually spread to govern all societies: bureaucratic coordination of activities is the distinctive features of modern society, (cid:862)i(cid:396)o(cid:374) (cid:272)age(cid:863) =(cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:271)u(cid:396)eaucratic society. Constraining our humanity and preventing us from being fully human: what is a bureaucracy, formal positions are ranked hierarchically, authority rests with the office not the incumbent. Many: ideas vs material goods become very successful, with presbyterian church vs catholic church, we(cid:271)e(cid:396)"s theory of the protestant ethic and capitalism explains what happened to the economic system when protestant religious ideas gained prominence in. Has to maintain relationships with government, other graduate programs, etc. A corporation is a kind of person an individual with individual rights and privileges.
