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

220 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern ...

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