The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy by Michael Herzfeld

The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy

Michael Herzfeld

207 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from lo...

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