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. impersonality
B. written rules and regulations
C. hierarchy of authority
D. division of labor
Answer: A
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