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Modern Society and the Bureaucracy of Max Weber

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Western rationalism and history (Seaton 165). Yet, while most are used to government bodies being entrenched in bureaucracy, it seems like many businesses have embraced the concept, or at least  have used it to an extent. The contemporary workplace has within it many features of organization that emanate from the model of bureaucracy. One can see this as many offices  continue to possess timeclocks or devices to monitor behavior and presence. There are time sheets, recordings of what an individual it doing, videotape and accountability in terms of volume. Quality  seems to be sacrificed for quantity and orderliness. There is a sense that things must be done a certain way. In comprehending the tenets of bureaucracy and how it is  manifest in the present society, it pays to look at the past and to the model that started it all. It is of course Max Weber who most thoroughly explained  the idea, but why was he so interested in it? How does one come up with such a comprehensive model from scratch? Sociologist Max Webers inner tensions stemmed primarily  from the tangled web of his relations within his family, as well as from his attempts to escape from Germany (Coser 234). His questioning of authority in his personal life  and his fascination with the topic certainly relate to his own situation (234). Yes, with a strong interest in organizing the outer world, Max Weber would come up with a  prototype that defined and explained bureaucracy. Interestingly, this man who had the idea to organize things, endured unfair governmental treatment. However, that is the same situation for many today. Who  has not thought, while waiting on line at the Division of Motor Vehicles, that the whole process is wasteful. Such offices, like the DMV and the IRS are exemplifications of