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This 4 page paper discusses Max Weber’s principles that help define groups, and then considers how three groups (high school, Boy Scouts, billiard players) might be “classified.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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following: high school, Boy Scouts and playing billiards. Discussion Max Weber noted that there are six major principles that describe groups. The first is that a group has a "formal
hierarchical structure: Each level controls the level below and is controlled by the level above" (Bureaucratic form according to Max Weber - His six major principles; hereafter "Bureaucratic form"). This
structure forms the basic for decision making and planning (Bureaucratic form). Second, a group is governed by rules; third, it is organized by "functional specialty" (Bureaucratic form). That is, any
work that is done is "done by specialists, and people are organized into units based on the type of work they do or skills they have" (Bureaucratic form). Fourth,
the mission of a group, according to Weber, is either "up-focused" or "in-focused," meaning that the mission of the group is either to "serve the stockholders, the board, or whatever
agency empowered it" while an in-focused organization seeks to serve itself (Bureaucratic form). It may hope to make a profit, produce a cash stream or otherwise profit (Bureaucratic form). A
group in the sense Weber defined it is "purposely impersonal," meaning that it treats everyone equally, both employees and customers (Bureaucratic form). (Since the groups discussed here are not companies
but social organizations, we can assume that the paradigm here would be that members and outsiders are treated equally.) Webers last principle is that employment in "based on technical qualifications"
(Bureaucratic form). Moving now to consider what types of groups these are, we find that in general there are two types of groups: primary and secondary (Long, 2008). Primary groups
in general "form around family and close friends"; people in these groups form "emotional ties" and the groups themselves are "responsible for determining who you are" (Long, 2008). Secondary groups
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