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| The 6 Characteristics of a Beuarcracy |
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1. Official Jurisdictional Areas
2. Office Hierarchy
3. Files/Documents
4. Training management
5. Full time job
6. Knowing rules |
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| The 5 Characteristics of a Beuracrat |
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1. Prestique
2. Appointed
3. Have for life
4. Payed on basis of rank
5. Career hierarchy |
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| The 10 reasons that burocracy is superior |
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1. Precision
2. Speed
3. unambiguity
4. knowledge of files
5. continuity
6. descresion
7. unity
8. strict subordination
9. reduction of friction
10. reduction of material and personal costs |
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| Three ways in which Weber disagreed with Marx (p. 144) |
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o 1) weber says there is no social evolution- the future is OPEN
o 2)Thre is not a single causal mechanism (hegal ideas marx economics- weber says it is moth material and idea) E-mail about revolutions in middle east
o 3) whats wrong with society? Marx= capitalism Weber= it’s rationalization and bureaucracy |
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• Rational/legal authority
o Ex. President (Obama crosses over more than one), bureaucrat, Judges, law enforcement…
• Traditional authority
o Always been done that way
o Ex. The Pope, Queen Elizabeth, Grandparents…
• Charismatic authority
o Particular about this certain person
o Gift for speaking….
Ex. Hitler, Jimmer Fradette , Obama, Elder Holland… |
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Normalessness (Durkheim) there is more to life than what happened withing someones brain. Study of suicide rates- found that likelyhood caries on the culture you are in- certain types of society.
1.Rates increased in protestant coutnry
2. major social upheavel
3. higher divorce rates
The pattern: Anomie- all of these situations, the order has broken down, the system has broken down. We need pattern, order, structure.
Durkhiem- Sociology is study of social fact
-> external but cohersive of. something is out there (ex. college) |
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| Compare/Contrast Mark, Durkheim and Weber |
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Definition
Classes: Mark- ownership, weber- life opportunities
Religion- marx: numbs pain :(, durkheim: tolerant. society and religion, Weber- capitilism- we lose heart
Society- Weber: towards buracratic, marx: towards communism, Durkheim- towards organic society |
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| Empiricism & The Enlightenment |
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Definition
Empiricism- describe the 5 senses- basis for conclusions about empirical world
(ONLY) accept true if known by senses
Empirical- describing something from senses
irony- empiricism is a non-empirical assumption (philosophy)
Enlightenment-200 year long debate |
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| 3 things enlightenment thinkers opposed |
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Definition
1) arbitrary disposit government (divine right of kings)
2)Religious tradition
3)common sense explination |
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| 5 things the enlightenment thinkers supported |
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Definition
1) civil society - any context where you can share ideas
2)Right and responsibility of free citizens
3) reason (question ideas/values)
4)science- universe by natural laws
5)Empiricism |
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| The 8 enlightenment thinkers |
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Definition
| Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Montesquieu, Rosseau |
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| not REALLY conservative- rooted in enlightenment. (Social facts, solidarity) |
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| What holds society together- changing but getting better. How do we hope for something better? |
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| Things are getting worse (Gemainschoft and Gesellshoft) |
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Gemein- self/natural will, community
Gesell- Society, industrial, modern life |
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Mechanical
Organic solidarity |
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(Durkheim- society won't fall apart)
Mechanical- solidarty of similarities .everyone does the same thing... Unity
Organic- depend on each other even more, sepecialization, solidarity of differences. The devision of labor in society |
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| Versthen- to understand- goal of sociology. Attempts to interperate understanding of action. different from enlightenment (no black and white) |
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| difference in Marx & Weber idea of soc |
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Weber- sociology is a science that attempts... subjectivity (the meaning things have)
Marx- goal of sociology- CHANGE (philosophers only interpret) ACTION oriented. Subjectivity- not too big. false consiousness |
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| What marx and weber disagreed on |
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Definition
Marx- class= economics
Weber- No # of classes, life opportunities (Giovani) |
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