Question

2. The sociologist Max Weber said this of bureaucracy: "From a purely technical point of view, a bureaucracy is capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency, and is in this sense formally the most rational known means of exercising authority over human beings. It is superior to any other form in precision, in stability, in the stringency of its discipline, and in its reliability." Explain why you agree or disagree with his assessment

Answer 1

This is of course a somewhat subjective question, but most would agree that this is a weak argument, since although on paper bureaucracies can seem efficient and "robot-like," in reality they are almost always difficult to maintain and place a "drag" on the system--due to the fact that each person in the bureaucracy is given a small amount of autonomy.