The Social Production of Indifference

The Social Production of Indifference

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Book Description
Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility.

"Herzfeld's book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutional control, symbols and their power, and social conflict. . . . Thoughtful and challenging."--Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist

The Social Production of Indifference,Michael Herzfeld,University Of Chicago Press,0226329089,Abuse of administrative power,Bureaucracy,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Elite (Social sciences),Negotiating,Social conflict,Social control,Sociology,Business & Economics / Negotiating,POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Social, group or collective psychology,Sociology, Social Studies,Western Continental Europe

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