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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Bureaucracy in New Capitalist Economy.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Politics and Society

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For Max Weber, modern capitalism and bureaucracy grew together: the market needed calculable administration, and big firms bureaucratised themselves. Alfred D. Chandler (The Visible Hand, 1977) showed that the twentieth-century corporation replaced market coordination with managerial hierarchies. The "new capitalism" that emerged from the 1970s is global, financialised, flexible and digital. It claims to dismantle…

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  • The post-bureaucratic thesis
  • Bureaucracy transformed, not abolished
  • Human costs
  • Conclusion
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