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Freedom and Social Control
What is the phrase Robert Michels uses to designate the principle that the larger and more bureaucratic an organization becomes, the more power is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people in high positions? How are bureaucracy and democracy in conflict? What is the direction of power and control in a bureaucracy? What is the ideal direction of power and decision in a democracy?

Ritzer seems quite pessimistic about rationalization and technology. What does Herbert Marcuse say about the uses of technology?

Who was Frederick Taylor? What is scientific management? What is �fordism�? How is leisure possible? How is leisure rationalized? How was work organized before modernity? What is the importance of clock time?

This is the probable essay question: Ritzer states that there are four principles of rationalization/McDonaldization. First, list the principles. Second, define each completely. Finally, provide a brief example/illustration of each drawing from Michael Foucault�s �discipline and punish� thesis.

What is the point of Franz Kafka�s �The Penal Colony�?

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