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The course which I take is “Late Industrialization and Social Change” (not the essay topic)
Choose one of the readings below and write a critical review. Try to think why you disagree in case you do not disagree, and in case you agree is what the author says enough? What can you add your own thoughts and ideas to those of the author? Is there enough evidence to support the arguments? Is there logical consistency in the arguments?
All in all, the professor is seeking how much thinking you put into critical review. Not summary of the readings. You should have strong argument (with a why question).
6-8 pages, double spaced. I will upload a sample of critical review later.
Readings:
Bureaucracy:
Industrialization and the State:
**Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany (Garden City, N.Y.：Doubleday, 1967), Ch. 3 & 12.
Implications for Social Change:
**Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany (Garden City, N.Y.：Doubleday, 1967), Ch. 4.
DO NOT lack of questions or critical observations in the paper.
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Critical Review
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It appears that nobody likes the idea of bureaucracy, and yet somehow individuals appear
to end up with more bureaucracy as they engage in their day-to-day activity. A person can see its
impacts in every facet of his/her life. Certainly, the bureaucracy has become part of our lives; it
fills individuals’ lives with paperwork and has become the water in which individuals swim.
Since the 1800s, the notion that the economy is different from the government was used to
warrant laissez-faire economic guidelines established to reduce the duties of government, and
nevertheless they never essentially have that impact. Nor, for instance, did English liberalism
result to a decline of state bureaucracy; rather, individuals ended up with an increasing range of
legal clerks, notaries, and registrars who made the liberal dream of a country of free convention
between autonomous persons possible.
This critical review attempts to answer a question obliquely posed by the work of
JURGEN KOCKA: that is, what are the impacts of capitalism and bureaucracy in German
Industrialization before 1914? The author uses the perspectives of Max Weber regarding
capitalism and bureaucracy and their effect on western civilization as primary examples.
KOCKA uses Weber’s analysis on the differences between capitalism and bureaucracy and the
conflicts that might exist between these two concepts.
In this article, the author pursues to integrate all the elements, components, and
standpoints of Weber and other historical scholars in regards to discussing bureaucracy in
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Germany’s industrialization and other western countries. In this critical review, I hope to attain
four primary objectives; First, I seek to ascertain Max Weber’s analysis on the issue of
capitalism and bureaucracy in the western nation. Secondly, I hope to analyze the difference
between the context in Germany and United States and Britain in relation to the rise of
bureaucracies and capitalist industrialization. Last but not least, I seek to examine the limitations
of bureaucratization in companies in German. Lastly, I hope to effectively critique the
perspectives of KOCKA as presented in his art...
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