Max Weber’s Bureaucracy: Principles, Legitimacy, and Impact
Max Weber’s Bureaucratic Model
Weber’s model, applicable to public companies, defines an organization as a social group characterized by a purpose, permanence, and formal structures and rules. The scientific organization of labor is a form of bureaucracy with a hierarchical structure and bureaucratic norms. Weber argued that this provides technical superiority to other organizations. Bureaucratic power is a crucial tool for administrative leadership. Weber emphasizes power’s importance in defining
Read MoreCatalan Language: History, Evolution, and Cultural Impact
The Catalan Language: A Historical Overview
The Catalan language was initially the only language spoken and understood by the people. It wasn’t until the seventeenth century that Spanish began to spread among the higher social classes in cities. This is a brief look at the origins of the Catalan language.
Origins and Early Development
The Catalan language originated from the evolution of Vulgar Latin spoken in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula and southern Gaul (Narbonne). The first manifestations
Read MoreUnderstanding Democracy, Civil Society, and Political Systems
Democracy
A political system in which people choose their leaders by voting.
Main characteristics:
Freedom: Related to justice, equality, and human rights. We are free to give our opinion.
Power division: Political power is divided:
Legislative → Parliament
Judicial → Judge
Executive → Government
3. Equality: All people are supposed to be equal under the law.
4. Representative: People take part in politics by voting for their representatives who will govern.
Civil Society
‘Civil Society’ is a community
Read MoreMarxist Philosophy of Praxis: Social Change & Human Action
Marxist Philosophy of Praxis
The superstructure (the set of intellectual and spiritual aspects of societies, including moral values and social institutions such as marriage and education) influences the base, not the other way around.
In the Marxist analysis of human action, another interesting idea emerges: human action is not only a question of will. It is not enough to want something. There needs to be an objective analysis of the specific conditions of production and work. One must understand
Read MoreDemocratic Curriculum: Principles and Development
Bureaucratic Curriculum Focused on School Improvement
The process of elaboration of the PCC bureaucratic model:
- The administration has a plan for reform and a national curriculum.
- The reform model requires schools to observe the curriculum.
- The schools produce the PCC and the SGP to develop reform.
PCC making process – Model focused on school improvement:
- The center has created a dynamic institution for educational improvement.
- Try to reconstruct its past and present in the light of *majoras* options.
- Carry
Dialectical Materialism: Marx’s Theory of Revolution
Dialectical Materialism
- Materialism, in pre-revolutionary France, meant a philosophy which held that the mechanical explanations given by natural sciences could be extended to all subject matters: vital, mental, and social.
- Marx was a “materialist” but thought that the method of natural science could not be adopted for social studies. He regarded the dialectic as a logical method uniquely capable of dealing with continuously developing historical facts and of revealing the “necessity” of its development.