SOC 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: For Marx, Elite Theory, Status Group
12 Sep 2018
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It is methodological in nature, with no criticism and the person is set for carrying command: the reason for advance is based on having greater technological over other forms of organization. Full bureaucratic can be compared to the machine with non-machine modes of production, they are thus raised to its maximum point and in a monocratic fashion. Characteristics of officialdom (page 34: there is a strong relationship between certain organizational characteristics and the extent to which office incumbency determines the status position of the official, the official is appointed, tenure tends to be for life. This, along with (4) and (5), contributes to the creation of office sinecures in the form of prebends. Once it is firmly in place, it is a political force that is hard to be eliminated. They cannot squirm out of what they have gotten into.
