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What is formal organization? “The growth of bureaucracy has resulted in extreme concentration of power at larger levels of social organization.” Discuss.
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- Works and Economic Life
Modern societies run through formal organisations: ministries, corporations, armies, parties. Bureaucracy is their administrative core. The statement echoes a line from Max Weber through Robert Michels to C. Wright Mills: as organisation grows in scale, power gathers at the top. The claim holds for control over resources and information, but "extreme" concentration overstates it.
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- What is formal organisation?
- How bureaucracy concentrates power
- Why the concentration is not extreme
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