Anneke van Baalen, HIDDEN MASCULINITY, Max Weber's historical sociology of bureaucracy. 1994
Chapter 9 Connections between formal rationality and charismatic domination over and through free
men: the continuing role of magic in the construction of impersonal patriarchal fraternities; from
Ständestaat to revolution
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Thus Weber denies the results of his own investigation: the chains of causes and effects he
constructed in his search for an answer to his question why modern bureaucracy only grew on
European soil. If Weber's typology of bureaucracy is separated from its context, modern
bureaucracy remains a mystery. Only his historical analysis presents the - paradoxical -
connections he made with individual, subjective meanings. In my last chapter I will bring these
connections together in an analysis of the character and the recent history of bureaucracy, in
which I will try to solve the mysteries of bureaucracy and its members: modern middle-class
men.
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