Bureaucratization

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dc.citation.epage78en_US
dc.citation.spage75en_US
dc.contributor.authorWinter, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.editorCarroll, Bret E.
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-17T12:55:26Z
dc.date.available2019-05-17T12:55:26Z
dc.date.issued2004en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of American Culture and Literatureen_US
dc.description.abstractBureaucracy, or bureaucratization, refers to routinized, deper-sonalized, and dispersed processes devoted to the execution of a variety of administrative tasks, and to the regulation and assessment of these tasks. Within a bureaucratic system of governance, authority is dispersed and disconnected from ownership or physical production. Notions of a “bureaucratic manhood,” or a “bureaucratic team player,” slowly began to appear in U.S. society as bureaucratic systems of governance and administration emerged after 1830. This development enabled men to articulate masculine power and authority out-side the contexts of craft skills (which were slowly displaced by industrialization after 1830) and ownership and entrepreneurial control (which were transformed by corporatization after 1880). In addition, a mode of bureaucratic manhood gained ground after 1880 that linked masculinity to the exercise
dc.identifier.doi10.4135/9781412956369.n37
dc.identifier.doi10.4135/9781412956369
dc.identifier.eisbn9781412956369
dc.identifier.isbn9780761925408
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/51353
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherSAGE Publications, Inc.
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956369.n37
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412956369
dc.subjectMen's Studies
dc.subjectBureaucracy
dc.subjectBureaucratization
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectMasculinities
dc.subjectMass society
dc.subjectPower and authority
dc.subjectWhite collar
dc.titleBureaucratizationen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US

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