Bureaucracy Essay

The goal of this assignment is for you to use your life experience as data to understand the nature and function of a bureaucracy.

In an essay of 1,000 words, describe an organization with which you have direct personal experience and which appears to fit the characteristics of a bureaucracy, as listed in Chapter 6 of Our Social World: An Introduction to Sociology.

Your essay should incorporate the five items listed below and show that the organization bureaucracy meets each characteristic:

Clear hierarchical levels of authority with the work assignments flowing downward

1.A division of labor

2.Written rules

3.Written communications and records

4.Impersonality