bureaucracy
[De]A type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority, the existence of written rules of procedure, and staffed by full‐time, salaried officials. Often held to be one of the ...
closure
Identified in the writings of Max Weber, and more recently resurrected by the British sociologist Frank Parkin, the concept emerged as an alternative to Marxist theories of inequality and of how the ...
Max Weber
(1864–1920)German social scientist and political economist who became a founding father of modern sociology.Weber studied legal and economic history at several German universities. After a brief ...
patrimonialism
A form of political domination described by Max Weber (Economy and Society, 1920), in which authority rests on the personal and bureaucratic power exercised by a royal household, where that power is ...
political crime
Historically, the term refers to conspiracy, and the actual deed of challenges to political rulers or sacred authority. Political criminals were likely to suffer much more gruesome punishment than ...
power
Strength in arranging the terms of one's dealing with other firms or people. See also bargaining power; countervailing power; monopoly power.
sociology of law
Law—rules of action or statutes established by authorities such as states—was a central object of theoretical and substantive concern to each of the founding figures of sociology.Although Karl Marx ...
