The Social Production of Indifference - Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy

Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility.
"Herzfeld's book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutional control, symbols and their power, and social conflict. . . . Thoughtful and challenging."--Helen B. Schwartzman, "American Ethnologist"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Herzfeld, Michael (Harvard University) Herzfeld, Herzfeld Michael
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.10.1993
• EAN: 9780226329086
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32908-6
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 215 mm x 14 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Social, group or collective psychology, Politics and government, Western Europe, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Western Continental Europe