You enroll in a freshman Introduction to Sociology course at your college, and the classes are held in a large auditorium with stadium seating that holds over a hundred students, with a single instructor behind a lectern. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?

A. Written rules and regulations
B. Impersonality
C. Division of labor
D. Hierarchy of authority


Answer: B

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