Technologically Coded Authority: The Post-Industrial Decline in Bureaucratic Hierarchies
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“Once fully established, bureaucracy is among those social structures which are the hardest to destroy...As an instrument of rationally organizing authority relations, bureaucracy was and is a power instrument of the first order for one who controls the bureaucratic apparatus...Where administration has been completely bureaucratized, the resulting system of domination is practically indestructible” (Weber, 1978, p. 987).
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تاریخ انتشار 2002