Hierarchy and society
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives on bureaucracy
By: Gerald M. Britan and Ronald Cohen, editors.
Contributors: Britan, Gerald M.; Cohen, Ronald.; Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Human Issues
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Organizational sociology.; Bureaucracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: Britan, G. M. and Cohen, R. Introduction.; value: Britan, G. M. and Cohen, R. Towards an anthropology of formal organizations.; value: Nader, L. The vertical slice, hierarchies and children.; value: Schwartzman, H. B. The bureaucratic  context of a community mental health center.; value: Britan, G. M. and Chibnik, M. Bureaucracy and innovation, an American case.; value: Cohen, R. The blessed job in Nigeria.; value: Rosen, C. B. The dynamics of provincial administration in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, 1930-1974.; value: Whyte, M. K. Bureaucracy and antibureaucracy in the People's Republic of China.; value: Newman, K. Incipient bureaucracy, the development of hierarchies in egalitarian organizations.; value: Denich, B. Bureaucratic scholarship, the new anthropology.