McDonaldization represents the bureaucracy in Weber’s model of the modern development of rationalization. Further, McDonalization refers to the far-reaching process of social change (Ritzer and Malone, 2000). It impacts social structures and institutions in its country of origin, as ...
Chinese bureaucracy in a distinct mode of domination; the Confucian lens identifies the prevalence of informal institutions that underlie bureaucratic behaviors; and the Marchian lens sheds light on the organized anarchy and set of mechanisms that shape the key characteristics of Chinese bureaucracy. ...
Overview of the Federal Reserve System & its Processes from Chapter 64/ Lesson 1 4.1K The Federal Reserve is a sector of the government that controls and regulates the supply of money. Explore the details of the Federal Reserve, learn what reserve ratios and discount rates are, and understand...
In twenty years of reform in China, the key development has been the opening-up of the market to foreign trade and international investment. This increased economic openness has been accompanied by profound changes in both economic organisation and regional disparity. This comprehensive book focuses ...
What are the three main patterns of settlement?Settling Down:At the end of the Neolithic Period, around 6,500 years or so, hunter-gatherer societies began to settle down to a more sedentary lifestyle. What prompted this change? Agriculture. At this time, Neolithic people began to plant ...
Among other European Union countries, the Czech Republic highlights the state’s liberal approach to cryptocurrencies and minimal bureaucracy. From the main advantages of the Czech Republic as a country for the start of the project in the field of virtual assets, the law...
thereisananalyticaltendencytoskippastaconsiderationofthewaythematerialityofsuchobjectsandthemediationtheyperformnecessarilyinfluencethemeaningtheyaremeanttocarry.”AndMatthewHull(2012:13),inhisethnographicstudyofurbanbureaucracyandthematerialformsofbureaucraticdocumentationinPakistan,points out how the material qualities ...
When I came back today, Marnell himself was walking the floor, fixing problems and attending to customers - that's great. With Strip casinos being run by large corporations and even the bigger locals operators filled with bureaucracy, it's refreshing to see an owner/operator involved at that ...
features of capitalist modernity that social democracy had heretofore naturalized: materialism, consumerism, and “the achievement ethic”; bureaucracy, corporate culture, and “social control”; sexual repression, sexism, and heteronormativity. Breaking through the normalized political routines of the ...
By and large, they define them as the formal or informal procedures, routines, norms and conventions em- bedded in the organizational structure of the polity or political economy. They can range from the rules of a constitutional order or the standard operating pro- cedures of a bureaucracy ...