A decade-long study tracking young Americans reveals a profound shift happening in religious life across the country: people ...

In 'Modernity and the Holocaust,' Jewish social theorist Zygmunt Bauman wrote about how rationalization can dehumanize a ...

A "remarkable" transformation is underway in American religious life, Cornell-led research finds. Large numbers are leaving ...

This is the concept that gave birth to the management-by-directive tradition, which undergirds Max Weber’s articulation of the nature of the bureaucracy. This tradition centralises the decision ...

Max Weber is considered a pioneer of the rationalist trend in ... which have become the most common form of organization in this society. Weber considered bureaucracy to be the essence of his theory ...

Claude Ake, in his seminal Democracy and Development in Africa (1996), argued that African states often prioritize survival ...

Bureaucracy is not so much a system of rules, it is a system of values. It is an organizational form that governs how work gets done in accordance with principles that the sociologist Max Weber first ...