Rational-legal authority

Weber and Emile Durkheim treated the process of ‘division of labour’. I aim to compare Weber and Durkheim’s theoretical and methodological approaches to the subject of the division of labour. As they both come from two contrasting theoretical traditions, they have similarities and differences in their sociological approaches. Durkheim represents the French academic position in sociological theory while Weber is inspired by the German intellectual orientation and the explanation of individual action

The Enlightenment was a birth of a new ideology that based itself on reason and rational through the use scientific observations to better understand the world. The enlightenment movement began with the English revolution in 1688, which replaced the English monarchy with a constitutional monarchy. Then the movement spread to other countries like France, where they were already at the edge of a political revolution. Although geographically speaking, the enlightenment ideal was based in western Europe

SANCTIONS, PERCEPTIONS, AND CRIME: IMPLICATIONS FROM CRIMINAL DETERRENCE According to the journal article, the concept of deterrence is simple; it is the omission of a criminal act because of the fear of sanctions or punishments. Deterrence is an important foundation of the criminal justice system. Law enforcement is there to apprehend those that break the law, and to convince the public that there is a risk of apprehension and punishment if they commit a crime. Laws provide a host of different

Apple Inc. – Rational System Apple Inc. was formerly known as Apple Computer Inc for about 3 decades, but removed the word "Computer" in 2007, to show the company 's ongoing progression into the consumer electronics market, in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers. Apple Inc is a corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, computer software such as the Mac OS X operating system, and personal computers such as the Mac Book and Mac Book

SANCTIONS, PERCEPTIONS, AND CRIME: IMPLICATIONS FROM CRIMINAL DETERRENCE According to the journal article, the concept of deterrence is simple; it is the omission of a criminal act because of the fear of sanctions or punishments. Deterrence is an important foundation of the criminal justice system. Law enforcement is there to apprehend those that break the law, and to convince the public that there is a risk of apprehension and punishment if they commit a crime. Laws provide a host of different

In this type of authority persons in authority act in accordance to their duties, code of conduct, rules and regulations. Weber’s bureaucracy is known as the Ideal-Type, which is where Weber stated that administration should be efficient and rational in the organisation of human activity. This means the organisation of hierarchy in ways that maximises productivity and eliminates favouritism

10.4.5 Critique The critique of this model derives principally from the criticisms that can be levelled at the research methodology, particularly its non positivist approach, although a rationale for the single case study design and hermeneutic phenomenology research paradigm has been made above (Ch 5,6). Within its own epistemological terms a legitimate criticism of such a model of management might derive more generally from its potential irrefutability, following Popper’s criticism of the “pseudosciences”

Vail Valley Medical Center is an organization run mostly by the Bureaucratic Management Theory. A bureaucracy is any form of organization that subscribes to an authority in the structure of a hierarchy and has a rigid set of rules. The purpose of the Bureaucratic Management Theory can be described as a system the enables an organization to expand and grow into a very complex company with very specific rules and regulations resulting in great success. An advantage of the Bureaucratic Management

SANCTIONS, PERCEPTIONS, AND CRIME & HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT CRIMINAL DETERRENCE According to the journal article, How Much Do We Really Know about Criminal Deterrence? The concept of deterrence is simple: “it is the omission of a criminal act because of the fear of sanctions or punishments. Deterrence is an important foundation of the criminal justice system. Law enforcement is there to apprehend those that break the law, and to convince the public that there is a risk of apprehension

Freedom or liberty as a political concept remains a trouble-some notion which continues to be widely disputed. Historically, being 'free' did not refer only to a legal status, but also to a set of character virtues one possesses in becoming a man free of limitations. Within the discourse, there is a general consensus that freedom is contrary to that of constraint. Hence freedom can be thought of as being free from any restraint in pursuing one's desires or choices. Philisophers within the literature