Bureaucracy, Contradiction, and Ideology in Two Societies.

Urban, Michael E.

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Publication Date: 1978

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Bureaucracy, Contradiction, and Ideology in Two Societies

Urban, Michael E.

Administration and Society, 10, 1, 49-85, May 78

By tracing the inter-relationships between the concepts "modern industrialism,""bureaucracy," and "ideology," a general ideology of modern administration emerges that ascribes rationality to organizations, not to men. A review of American and Soviet literature reveals a pattern of parallel responses to this ideology. (Author/IRT)

Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Foreign Countries, Industrialization, Organizations (Groups), Social Systems

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Identifiers - Location: United States; USSR

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