Weber(2) Flashcards
Bureaucracy
Defn
- Institutionalised form of Rational action
Large-scale orgn
Rationally designed
Coordinate large no. of indivls
Pursuit of organisational goals
Bureaucracy
Ideal-type bureaucracy characteristics
Red Hot Chicken Piece(PIIS)
* Continuous orgn of fns based on Rules
* Hierarchy
* Each office->sep sphere of Competence
* Positions based on technical expertise
* Incumbents->Formalistic personality
* Incumbents->don’t appropriate positions/resources
* Sep official & personal spheres
Bureaucracy
Future(Marx vs Weber)
Marx: Dictatorship of Proletariat
Weber: Dictatorship of Officials
Bureaucracy
Critic
Bureaucracy Pe WAR
Weber
Alvin Gouldner
RK Merton
Peter Blau
Bureaucracy
Weber critic
Threat to
* Democracy(unelected officials power)
* People’s ethical & value orientation
* Indivl liberty
Bureaucracy
Alvin Gouldner critic
Gypsum plant->risk->req interpersonal, not impersonal for efficient functioning
Bureaucracy
RK Merton critic
Rule obsessed(cant anticipate future)->cant fn effectively in dynamic & emergent situations
Bureaucracy
Peter Blau critic
Studies of Tax administration(Bureaucrats- highly informal ways of working-efficiency^)
Bureaucracy
Iron-cage of rationality(seq)
Indivls->forced to comply with strong impersonal forces(eg.bureaucracy)->autonomy lost to shape own lives
Bureaucracy
Science+Capm&Bureaucracy(+ & -)
Control over ext world;orderly world
Crisis of meaning->disenchantment
Bureaucracy
His 3 conclusions abt process of Rationalisation
- Not all bad
- Not all good
- Inescapable
PESC
Ascetism
Mysticism
Asc=action+self denial (eg.Fasting)
Mys=inaction+conyemplation (eg.Meditation)
PESC
Pursuing profit(comparison)
Other societies: Indivl act motivated by greed
Protestantism: Moral crusade/ ethical duty
PESC
Spirit of capm
- Profit: seek rationally
- Pleasures: avoid
- Hard work(‘time is money’,’be industrious’)
- People’s duty: Incr wealth ceaselessly
PESC
Calvinism
Doctrine of pre-destination
Elects
unintended conseq: Spirit of capm
PESC
Typology of world religions
Ascetism
Mysticism
Inner-worldly
Otherworldly
PESC
Study of relig in Indonesia by whom
Clifford Geertz(used Weber’s approach)->Hajj made mandatory->discipline,hardwork inc to inc wealth to make pilgrimage
PESC
His proposition
- Not HM(material conditions–no)
- Transformn of ideas first in Westn Europe->Emergence of Capm (change in ideas due to Protestant reformation) eg. Protestants vs Catholics in Germany
PESC
Constructed ‘spirit of capm’ ideal-type using
Benjamin Franklin’s moral counsel
1. Work v.hard
2. Earn more & more
3. Avoid spont enjoyment
4. Avoid idleness
5. Maintain credit-worthiness
(1,2,3,4,5)->Turns profit-making into an ethical end
(1,2,3)->Irrational prospt->became accepted norm due to Protestant reformation
PESC
Calvinism effect on Capm
- Mind: Profit persuasion->ethical duty
- Manpower: Provided capitalist with industrious workmen who worked hard as life-purpose willed by god
- Legitimised uneq distrbn of goods->Dinine providence/fate
PESC
Critic by Weber
Specialists w/o spirit,
Sensualists w/o heart
