Introduction: Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the State in Everyday Life. PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 34(1):6-10.Bernstein, Anya, and Elizabeth Mertz. 2011. "Introduction Bureaucracy: Ethnography of
The whole pattern of everyday life is cut to fit this framework" (Weber, 1947, p.337). Out of power politicians pledge that, if elected, they will curb the bureaucracy, but, when in office they seem unwilling or incapable to carry out their promise. Our goal is to reconcile Weber's ...
Weber (1922), probably before anyone else, had identified the locus of power in the modern state to reside within the bureau, which in turn was dependent upon files and the management of documents: artifacts that continue to attract a lot of attention. Placing an emphasis on everyday life ...
Here at last was an opportunity to enact a worldwide tax on wealth, a far-reaching (and deeply impoverishing) “green-energy” agenda, rules that would dilute national sovereignty and insinuate politically correct attitudes into the fabric of everyday life. …the WEF plan involved nothing less ...
has been arrested or punished. The order maintenance function is defined as ensuring that everyday life in the community is stable without hinderance. (Palmiotto & Unnithan, 2011) Police bureaucracy was developed for police to give service to the public. Police bureaucracy helps maintain social ...
simplification of the day-to-day life of the population and of business through the elimination of hundreds of unnecessary or redundant documents in bidding procedures, the financing and mortgaging of houses, the issuance of personal documents such as driver licenses, and similar everyday ...
Many of these qualities may seem familiar because bureaucracies have become very commonplace in our everyday lives. Consider the Department of Motor Vehicles, for example. The “DMV” is a fixture of modern adult life and possesses all the qualities Weber identified. The DMV relies on order an...
Containing practical strategies for reducing the number of individual education plans and review meetings, "Beating Bureaucracy" will help you to use existing systems for target setting, recording and planning - personalised systems that are used for all children as part of everyday teaching practices...
Bureaucracy represents an ideal of state-enforced equality before the law that is in endless deferral. Anthropologists are well placed to sort through these contradictions and how they manifest in the everyday life of clients, bureaucrats, and others who engage with bureaucracy. The study of ...
The idea that bureaucracy is synonymous with inefficiency is frequently alluded to in everyday language, and also in subsequent criticism of Weber's ideal type of ‘rational bureaucracy’. Weber locates the analysis of bureaucracy within a theory of power, DOMINATION and legitimacy (see LEGITIMATE ...