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Discuss Max Weber’s ideal types and the role of authority in bureaucracy.

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  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber studied modern organisation through two linked tools. The ideal type gave him a pure model of bureaucracy against which real administrations could be measured. His theory of legitimate domination explained why officials command and why others obey. In Economy and Society (1922), bureaucracy is the administrative apparatus of legal-rational authority.

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