Honor in the Bureaucratic Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10436616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis C Mainzer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-90 |
| Publication date | 1964-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s003467050000677x |
| OpenAlex | W2159591916 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
How shall men know honor in the bureaucratic life? If not at all, we may largely lose sight of a virtue respected in the West, though not unquestioned, at least since Homer. A substantial and evidently increasing proportion of the members of a modem society, including many persons not “clerks” or “administrators” by vocation, works within bureaucracy. Though large organizations differ in the degree of their bureaucratization, for example, in the tightness of routine and control, they have common features which influence their members. These are: the anonymity of each participant, the joint nature of every action, the force of precedent and rules, and hierarchy in relations among members. These features work against honor
Action (physics · Anonymity · Bureaucracy · Control (management · Economics · Hierarchy · Honor · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Management · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |