Course Outline -- Week 3

ER 290-8
Environmental Sociology

David A. Sonnenfeld, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Spring 2000

Wk 3 – Weber: Bureaucracy, Rationalization & the Environment

Murphy, Rationalization and Nature, preface (pp. ix-xiii), part I (pp. 3-106), ch’s 7-8 (pp. 133-190), ch. 10 (pp. 225-255)

Weber, Max. 1946. "Bureaucracy," pp. 196-204 in Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds., From Max Weber (R)

Downs, Anthony. 1967. "Internal Characteristics" and "Officials’ Milieu, Motives, and Goals," pp. 49-74, 79-91 in Inside Bureaucracy (R)

Torgerson, Douglas, "Limits of the Administrative Mind: The Problem of Defining Environmental Problems," ch. 9 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth

Block, Fred. 1977. "The Ruling Class Does Not Rule," pp. 51-68 in Revising State Theory (R)