Abstract

This paper explores the comparatively neglected problem of sociologically explaining how and why the process of bureaucratization takes place in specific institutional contexts, by examining the occupation of naval officer as a branch of the state.l For Weber, in societies characterized by rational-legal domination, bureaucracy is the form in which those who dominate (heads of state, economic organizations, etc.), realize and execute their will over subordinate groups (the 'people', workers, etc.). Four concepts can be derived from Weber's ideal types which define what the emergence of bureaucracy, i.e. the process of bureaucratization, entails:

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