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
Related Mcqs:
- The norm of reciprocity entails______________?
A. doing things in an institutionalized way
B. working jointly in a common enterprise for a shared goal
C. doing something in return for what someone has done for you
D. all of the above - Max Weber intended his “ideal type” of bureaucracy as an_______________?
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 - A professional trained in a narrow abstract field is a________________?
A. vice president
B. specialist
C. bureaucrat
D. foreman - 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 - Weber,s “Protestant Ethic”is_______________?
A. a rejection of the ideological function of religion
B. a refutation of economic determinism
C. a vindication of the morality of capitalism
D. an explanation of Third-World underdevelopment - 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 - The Protestant denomination emphasized in Max Weber,s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was_______________?
A. Baptism
B. Anglicanism
C. Calvinism
D. Lutheranism - 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
