Max Weber’s Concept of Bureaucracy
Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber, was a German Historian, economist and sociologist whose radical views in sociological theory and research made him one of the founders of sociology, with the likes of Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. His main focus was on how modern day capitalization works. With the rise of capitalism and enlightenment, Weber wanted to understand and proposed how the modern societies are driven by rationality, secularization and so called dehumanization and disenchantment. According to Weber, the rise of the protestant work ethics led to the rise of modern capitalism. People started believing less in spiritual matters and started to concentrate more on hard work and money. They saw poverty as …show more content…
Weber also happens to ignore facts and actions like not following groups, existence of cliques, conflicts between employees etc. Moreover, the system suffers from continuous monitoring and paper work. There is also too much importance given to technical qualifications, which leads to the segmentation of population. Only those working in the loop of the organization get their salary and thus their commodities, others continue to be deprived. A notion of Social Stratification comes into play. People who are specialising to do a particular job, the so called experts also may not have a clear cut idea about how their jobs contribute to the organization as a whole, thus not developing any attachment to the organization.
Weber’s theory about bureaucracy is built upon a system of defined rules and a chain of command. This leads to achievement of highest possible functional performance of the organization. But such a system which has been put forward by him, cannot be achieved as people will never be machines to follow rules. There is always a degree of ‘being human’ and
‘emotion’ in them which can never be curbed. Thus, such a model is never truly possible to completely implement, and thereby is an …show more content…
His work and ideologies enriched sociology very much. His work on modern bureaucracy, authority, legitimacy is very much important and not to be ignored. The models he proposed are pretty much apt in this ‘modern’ era, which are looked upon as important part of social science. He is undoubtedly a ‘Father of
Sociology’.
The “cultivated” man was the old ideal; in modern bureaucracies the “specialist” rules.- Max
Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber, was a German Historian, economist and sociologist whose radical views in sociological theory and research made him one of the founders of sociology, with the likes of Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. His main focus was on how modern day capitalization works. With the rise of capitalism and enlightenment, Weber wanted to understand and proposed how the modern societies are driven by rationality, secularization and so called dehumanization and disenchantment. According to Weber, the rise of the protestant work ethics led to the rise of modern capitalism. People started believing less in spiritual matters and started to concentrate more on hard work and money. They saw poverty as …show more content…
Weber also happens to ignore facts and actions like not following groups, existence of cliques, conflicts between employees etc. Moreover, the system suffers from continuous monitoring and paper work. There is also too much importance given to technical qualifications, which leads to the segmentation of population. Only those working in the loop of the organization get their salary and thus their commodities, others continue to be deprived. A notion of Social Stratification comes into play. People who are specialising to do a particular job, the so called experts also may not have a clear cut idea about how their jobs contribute to the organization as a whole, thus not developing any attachment to the organization.
Weber’s theory about bureaucracy is built upon a system of defined rules and a chain of command. This leads to achievement of highest possible functional performance of the organization. But such a system which has been put forward by him, cannot be achieved as people will never be machines to follow rules. There is always a degree of ‘being human’ and
‘emotion’ in them which can never be curbed. Thus, such a model is never truly possible to completely implement, and thereby is an …show more content…
His work and ideologies enriched sociology very much. His work on modern bureaucracy, authority, legitimacy is very much important and not to be ignored. The models he proposed are pretty much apt in this ‘modern’ era, which are looked upon as important part of social science. He is undoubtedly a ‘Father of
Sociology’.
The “cultivated” man was the old ideal; in modern bureaucracies the “specialist” rules.- Max