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What are the five characteristics of bureaucracies as identified by Weber?
 
  What will be an ideal response

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  College Football as Social Structure, the statuses and role expectations of football players are described. If you go back to your high school, why would you know how to behave in classes, at lunch, in the hallways, and in after-school activities? What may pose a problem for your actions?
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Answer to Question 1

(1 ) clear levels, with assignments flowing downward and accountability flowing upward;
(2 ) division of labor;
(3 ) written rules;
(4 ) written communications and records;
(5 ) impersonality and replaceability

Answer to Question 2

Each position occupied by students in high school is a status. With each of these statuses are a set of accompanying behaviors, norms, values, and expectations. Providing students are recent high school graduates, these statuses and role expectations will not have changed much, if at all. The problems that may lead to confusion for students returning to school include the fact that their master status has changed from high school student to college student and they will be viewed as outsiders. If several years have passed since the students graduated, there will be an increased distancing from the high school role, and changes are more likely to have occurred in the behaviors associated with this role. Schools that have merged, a new school that has been built, and changes that have occurred in school administration may also affect how students respond to their previous statuses.



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