A. accurate description of existing bureaucracies
B. idealized or exaggerated model of rational administration
C. explanation of elite domination
D. obviously false portrait of democratic administration
Related Mcqs:
- Max Weber believed that_______________?
A. property was the only determinant of class
B. class was based on exploitation of the masses
C. class is closely related to life chances
D. societies should have at least three classes - Power is defined by Max Weber as the ability to__________________?
A. be the strongest in mind and body
B. carry out one,s wishes in spite of resistance
C. gain consent
D. do as one pleases - Max Weber,s notion of life chances closely resembles the concept of________________?
A. social status
B. personal power
C. social power
D. occupational prestige - The Protestant denomination emphasized in Max Weber,s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was_______________?
A. Baptism
B. Anglicanism
C. Calvinism
D. Lutheranism - Weber,s abstract model of bureaucracy entails______________?
A. task specialization governed by explicit rule
B. a pyramid of authority based on inherited privilege
C. leadership by a self-appointed
D. None of the above - The type of foreign policy decisions made by the governmental bureaucracy fall into the category of_______________?
A. crisis decisions
B. administrative foreign policy
C. legislative decisions
D. constructive foreign policy - The writers of the Constitution intended the president to have________________?
A. strong personal power
B. weak personal power
C. no power at all
D. power only in declaring war - The intended consequences of advertising is to__________________?
A. increase consumption
B. create brand awareness and direct consumption
C. create demand
D. All of the above - In preindustrial societies education was intended for_______________?
A. the masses
B. a small elite
C. productive persons
D. the obviously intelligent - The text primarily applied Weber,s notion of status to______________?
A. positions in the social system
B. ranked occupational positions
C. spending and consumption patterns
D. prestige derived from ancestry
