Weber on legitimate authority and bureaucracy
One person has the social accounts, and when they go on Erasmus the club goes quiet. Trust has nothing to do with it. What is missing is an office.
Weber splits the question 'why does anyone obey?' into three answers, and only the third one survives the person leaving.
Pick three things only one person can do and write one sentence for each describing what the ROLE does, not what that person does.
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Photograph by Ernst Gottmann, 1918. PD-old-auto-1923 (d. 1932) — Ernst Gottmann, 1918
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- From Max Weber (Gerth and Mills) — the bureaucracy chapter in English
- Stanford Encyclopedia on Max Weber
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