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| A formal organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and written rules of procedure, staffed by full-time salaried officials, and striving for the efficient attainment of organizational goals. |
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| Characterized by an emphasis on the whole system and on the interdependent nature of the parts of that system. |
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| Power and authority concentrated into a few offices. |
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| A policy that emphasizes military preparedness, threats, and action in addressing problems of state. A glorification of military ideals and capabilities. |
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| Writing that is characterized by a long list of complaints, laments, or prophesies of doom. |
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| A modern state in which a government has sovereign power within a defined territorial area and the mass of the population are citizens. |
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| An occupation the members of which are overwhelmingly employed by bureaucracy, although increasing numbers of professionals are employed in such organizations as well. |
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| The ways in which an institution engenders acceptance, validity, or commitment from individuals and other institutions. |
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| C. Wright Mills’s term for the application of imaginative thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions; the ability to see the effects of social patterns and history on human behaviour. |
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| According to C. Wright Mills, men in the highest positions of government, corporations, and the military, who hold enormous power in modern industrial societies. |
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| A form of government in which an authoritarian government attempts to regulate every aspect of sociocultural life. |
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| Skilful or devious management. |
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| Weber's term for the process by which modes of precise calculation based on observation and reason increasingly dominate the social world. |
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| Shared ideas or beliefs that serve to justify and support the interests of particular groups or organizations. |
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| Pertaining to non-manual occupations such as administrative or professional jobs. |
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| The tendency of bureaucracies to refine their procedures to attain their goals ever more efficiently. More generally, the process of secondary organizations taking over functions performed by primary groups. |
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