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The Importance Of Bureaucracy In The Education System

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Max Weber, a German sociologist and political economist described a theory to govern organizations in a rational and efficient way, now known as bureaucracy. Weber believes bureaucracies not only strengthen efficiency and ensure equality in private sectors but also public which include governmental agencies, schools, and other corporations. According to Weber there are three distinctions of bureaucracy: traditional authority, charismatic authority, and rational authority. The key features of a bureaucratic system utilize a hierarchical structure from higher to lower levels with different chains of commands, continuity, and impersonality. A commonly known bureaucratic system in the Western world is the education system, which consists of armies of representatives-- students, instructors, administrators, and deans which are all ranked according to status and authority. Academic bureaucracies across the world spend a large portion of money creating and drafting strategic ideas where the needs of the public aren’t always met or put first. In the Western world, “almost every endeavor that used to be considered an art (best learned through doing) now requires formal professional training and a certificate of completion, and this seems to be happening, equally, in both the private and public sectors…” (Graeber, 2015). Thus, many jobs require postsecondary education and training beyond high school in order to have an entry level job in the modern world which increases full or part
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