Max Horkheimer

Max Weber, a German social historian, is considered to be the founding father of bureaucracy and defines bureaucracy as the ideal and rational method of organisation, hence the most efficient way of conducting business. Weber built his model on four factors: functional specialisation, hierarchy of authority, a system of rules and impersonality (Weber, 1947) and formulated the concept of bureaucracy as a response to the inadequacies found in earlier forms of organisational structure. Weber…

The procedure begins with the preparation of the individual performing the test, as well as the equipment the test will be performed with. The participant should have avoided any physical activity the day in which the test will be performed. In relation to food and drink consumption, they should not consume any large meal two to three hours before the test, they should be adequately hydrated, and they should not have taken any stimulants that may alter the results of the test. The technician…

information about “how the effects of the state institution and state policies operate to fulfill this general maintenance function.” (p. 51). In applying the method of power structure research, instrumentalists Marxist based on two theoretical principles taken from Capital volume I. These principles are the Principle of Commodification and the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. The basic notion of the principle of commodification is the capitalism converts all use values to exchange values…

Capitalism in our country has grown and expanded to such an extent that it has reached a point of invincibility almost. Capitalism has throughout the years created groups or even categories of social economic class within the population, which has dramatically changed the way we all view each other. Along with inequality, it has created a difficult structure for the people of lower classes to be able to climb up into a higher class to be able succeed in life, which many times fails because they…

In reading this chapter understanding different health lifestyles and behaviors are really important. These two ideas of how people chose to live are very interesting in this chapter. While reading the chapter I found that different health chances and choices make a person live a certain way. The choices they make to live a healthy lifestyle can give them far more chances to live longer and have a healthy life. Reading about Weber and Bourdieu I found their research very interesting in studying…

A service I believe my hometown would benefit from is increasing the accessibility of healthier foods. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan and there has always been a lack of markets that sell healthy food, especially at a reasonable price. There is multiple fast food restaurants on every corner which is very convenient for many people. The lack of healthy foods is harming the African American population. The closest healthy market is not relatively close and if it is one in the area, the prices are…

Bureaucracies have been around for a very long time. According to Volti, a bureaucracy is “an organizational structure based on impersonality, expertise, division of labor, hierarchy, written records, and definitive rules and procedures. The government created a bureaucracy to protect and control the population from other empires or other governments from taking over their businesses. To keep their businesses up to date and to maintain their empire the bureaucracy decided to collect taxes from…

Exam #3 Max Weber a sociologist that was engaged with social life and sought to gain objective understanding on what guides social action. His work The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is to this day highly regarded as one of the most influential sociological writings. In his writings it was through social, rational actions where the commands or demands of society compel individuals to follow a line of conduct. Max Weber deviated from Karl Marx in three major forms, firstly…

Alienation is defined as “the transformation of people’s own labor into a power which rules them as if by a kind of natural or supra-human law” ("Marxism & Alienation"). This idea was developed by Marx in his 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. He believes there are five dimensions and three sources of alienation which in commodities have powers to govern the activity of human beings. The first aspect of alienation is the product itself. This allows the capitalist to generate…

Gender based identities have been created through the history and described by different perspectives from liberalism to evolutionally psychology. Liberal view of the role of women is that house work and childcare is a personal choice and women choose to do these tasks. Liberalism separates two aspects of life, public and private. They believe that public decision is political and economic matter to the life of people and personal decision is about what you do and buy. There is no connection…