Max Weber

Bureaucracy is the division of day to day work between several large administrative agencies. In America bureaucracy is found in all the levels of government national, state, and local. Bureaucracy has four characteristics a clear hierarchy, specialization, a division of labor and standard operating procedures. The head of the American bureaucracy is the president. There are three primary functions of a bureaucracy. It implements laws and policies made by officials. It also provides administrative

On Wednesday, August 23rd, I observed a local McDonald’s operations, services, and customers. Based off of my observations, I can confirm George Ritzer’s points on the ideas of McDonaldization, being efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control, that enable not only this restaurant but our society to be rationalized. Even so, this restaurant exemplified Ritzer’s research on irrationalities. Using these points, I will demonstrate exactly how Franklin Street’s McDonald’s truly fits into Ritzer’s

The military is not a bureaucracy in and of itself, but contains bureaucracy. In fact, it is around 90% bureaucracy, by pure manpower numbers. Let me come back to that. A simpler way to think of what is a bureaucracy is to think of what is a bureaucrat: a bureaucrat is any person in a secondary or tertiary function within an organization. For example, in an architectural firm, you have principal architects, staff architects, intern architects, accountants, and administrators (I am ignoring the

In accordance with the growth of the nation, the federal bureaucracy has followed suit. The federal bureaucracy is an organization formed to accomplish implementation, regulation, and administration with efficiency. Scaling such an operation to the needs of a growing nation requires copious amounts of time and effort; two requirements that are difficult to give to the organization, so to compensate, it grows irregularly and with less efficiency. Bred from this irregularity, the government added agencies

The United States bureaucracy has worked under two systems. The early bureaucracy conducted under the patronage system a.k.a “the spoils system”. The patronage system is about giving government jobs to family, friends, and political supporters. The spoils system meant that government jobs were used to support politicians and the political parties. In the early 19th century, government jobs were given to people and held by them at the pleasure of elected officials (President, Governor, Mayor, etc

The first step in sociological research is to create a hypothesis, and then to operationalize an idea by transforming the subject into something that can be measured. This research can be then carried out in two ways: either quantitative or qualitative. In both of these fields, there are multiple methods of how to go about research. Sociological research is important in understanding public attitudes and helping to enact new policies. It is a way to understand society, and make more informed decisions

The America I believe In The topic I am going to talk about is freedom. I wanted to talk about freedom because we don’t have as much freedom as I want. The freedom I want is that we don’t have to have our army troops out as much. The other way of freedom is that we can live wherever we want to, like you were born in South Carolina you can move to Antarctica. Freedom to me is also you don’t have to go to college for every job you want. Another way of freedom to me is if you want to talk to someone

After reading the article Social Organizations by Robert Prodanciuc, it has become clear that within the term organization in regards to the workplace, there are many different facets to what an organization actually is, and what influences its overall development and consistency. When examining the various styles, one that is mentioned by the author when citing Ioan Mihăilescu stands out as the type of organization I see myself involved in when thinking of the future: bureaucracy. The author defines

The kinship institution is one of the first institutions that were formed in human societies, and for most of the history of human race it was the main body of organizing the society, socially, economically, and politically. When we speak of social institutions then we are talking about invented structures that exist in all societies, and they are made of common rules that generate rights, duties, and privileges. They are also organized through established values, morals, and networks. They emerge

Industrial revolution in Germany: notes 1 - Why did the industrial revolution begin in your country? (Influenced by other countries? Keeping up with the joneses? Necessity is the mother of invention?) 2 – Where were the first machines used and who invented them? 3 – Was your country responsible for any major inventions? (Who made them? What was it?) 4 – Where did industrialisation begin in your country? (Identify the town/ area and use pictures if available – is it still industrialised today or