Exam 4: Max Weber

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber advocated for a revolution to overthrow the capitalism they were both criticized.

According to Max Weber, which of the following is a characteristic of a bureaucracy? Select all, but only those that apply.

What type of rationality grows out of a value system?

In the long run, charismatic authority itself cannot be routinized.

What type of traditional authority is based on the inheritance of power?

Within organizations, bureaucrats with rational authority have much more power over staff than organizations founded and led by individuals with charismatic authority.

Max Weber's concept of ______ referred to a collective of people who organize themselves to acquire and exercise power.

What type of traditional authority is based on rule by the oldest and most experienced?

What type of traditional authority is based on contractual relationships between leaders and subordinates?

Which of the following is a way followers can try to transfer authority from one charismatic leader of an organization to a predecessor? Select all, but only those that apply.

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber were vocal critics of capitalism.

Max Weber argued ______ authority is based in long-held beliefs and customs.

Max Weber thought status groups, but not classes were communities because those with a shared sense of social honor are likely to think and act in unison.

Max Weber argued ______ is guided by ethics or beliefs as opposed to a causal thinking.

What type of rationality uses a means-ends calculation to pursue self-interest?

The concepts of verstehen apply to macro-level units of analysis like culture.

A(n) ______ ideal type explains why people do the things people do.

Find an example of a party or a group organized to exercise power, and then assess whether this organization is seeking to secure the interest of either a social class or a status group.

Max Weber's concept of ______ referred to a collective of individuals that share a similar economic or market situation.

Max Weber argued _____ _authority is based on agreed upon rules and procedures.