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... Using the theory spawned by Max Weber, these are all features found in the public service, in the offices of private firms, in universities, and so on. We will compare some of Weber’s ideas to Marx’s ideas of production to help explain the complexity of bureaucracy.
Looking to the theories of Karl Marx as comparison, these bureaucratic agencies are largely structural, in that they are primarily concerned with the structures of society, how these emerge and develop, and how they change. For Marx, these were production and labor processes, markets and the economy, and social classes and class struggle. While and Marx each recognized the individual, worker, or owner, they focused their analysis on the structural features of society as a whole and how the social relationships that emerged from these created order, disorder, conflict, struggle, change, and development. Compared to some writers, the theories of Marx provide a relatively clear cut and straightforward explanation of bureaucratic functions. ... Weber calls these the relationship of production. ... Weber also speaks of “benefices“, meaning an office to which is attached some income-yielding property, somewhat like a farm, or tithes, or tax-gathering rights, from which the office holder lives. ... This division is entitled to the administration’s office holders and allows Weber to see bureaucracy as one of the most important causes of the development of capitalism specifically. ... Weber suggests a parallel with capitalist productive enterprise. ... While Weber also wrote about structural issues, he added some different element to sociological analysis. ... Weber developed an approach that attempted to understand and interpret social actions of the individual actor, an approach that Max Weber argued is possible.
Approximate Word count = 1263
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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