Discuss the "ideal" versus the "real" bureaucracy. Does the ideal bureaucracy exist? Defend your answer
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal bureaucracy is based on Weber's "ideal type" – a composite of characteristics based on many specific examples to form the perfect bureaucratic organization. The real bureaucracy operates on a daily basis to provide for the needs and services of a society (police and fire protection, economic production, religion, education, and others). The real bureaucracy has inherent flaws but manages to exist in spite of them. In all likelihood, the "ideal" bureaucracy does not exist. Bureaucracies are composed of people, and people have flaws. They form coalitions and are subject to bias. In view of this, the probability of an ideal bureaucracy is remote.
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A. birthrates. B. death rates. C. migration rates. D. All of the answer choices are correct.
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A. distinct identity that sets us apart from others. B. child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole. C. child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of the people who are most important in his or her life. D. person's typical patterns of attitudes, needs, characteristics, and behavior.