SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture 14: 2S06 Lecture 14.docx
6 Dec 2013
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Last week: rationalization, predictability, control, efficiency, bureaucracy, bureaucracy & the ideal type: analytical concept/used for purposes of comparison, characteristics of bureaucracy: Example = universities (used to compare different bureaucracies) Fox 2 lecture 12: assessment of bureaucracy: Quote (on avenue): mentions principles of rationalization and legal authority. (rationality: efficiency, accountability, reliability, calculability, predictability and control)/ bureaucracy is good for the organization. Second quote (on avenue): features formalistic impersonality: doesn"t like that: the iron cage of rationality: Bureaucratic organizations are cages in which people become trapped due to the focus of rationality. Rationality coming at the expense of freedom (cant do whatever you want) & humanity (bureaucracy is impersonal=humanity denied) Developed in the u. s in the 20th century. Wants to analyze the structures of society and the functions of these structures. Focuses on social institutions and interdependence of these institutions. Order and maintenance of society: the emergence of structural functionalist theory, influence of emile durkheim:
