Bureaucratic Patterns in the Navy Officer Corps

Davis, Arthur K.

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“…I agree with the functionalist approaches to culture within a militarized bureaucratic apparatus (Abrahamson, 1972;Davis, 1948;Freeman, 1948;Merton, 1952Merton, [1940; Rose, 1946) that the ethos, worldview, and rituals usually observed to exist side by side with official regulations reinforce bureaucratic hierarchies 'in much the same sense as added allowances are made by the engineer in designing supports for a bridge' (Merton, 1952(Merton, [1940: 365). However, I explain the emergence and persistence of the observed cultural elements, not through an impersonal process, but by focusing on the different positions, interests, and actions of the agents that inhabit the institution.…”

Section: Symbolic Power In a Militarized Police Apparatus: From Organizational Culture To Bureaucratic Symbolic Violencesupporting

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Enchanting bureaucracy: Symbolic violence and the (re)production of charismatic authority in a police apparatus

Hathazy

2012

International Sociology

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This article dissects the role of culture in securing authority relations within a militarized police apparatus. Adding structure and power to the symbolic interactionist approach to organizational culture and interests and positionality to the structural functionalist perspective on militarized organizations, the author examines how, through the preservation and imposition of a sacralized worldview and morality (symbolic violence), police officers -the commanding caste of a twotiered type of police organization -manage to charismatically legitimate the internal distribution of authority and its exercise in the relations between commanding officers and the noncommissioned officers, turning sheer bureaucratic authority into charismatic power (symbolic power). The author draws on ethnographic observations, interview data, and a structuralsemantic analysis to reconstruct the system of beliefs involved and to describe the practices and mechanisms through which intra-bureaucratic domination is charismatically legitimated and made effective. These processes are examined both in everyday relations of command and in the extraordinary event of a police mutiny. KeywordsLatin America, militarized police, organizations, power relations, symbolic violenceIn the first lines of his memoirs -dedicated to 'future generations of police officers' -retired Officer Jaime, of the Cordoba Province Police Department (Argentina), advises those who will succeed him in the department's commanding positions:Besides acquiring adequate professional skills, every officer should work hard to learn and know about the origins and history of the police department and about the sacrifices of the men

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Section: Symbolic Power In a Militarized Police Apparatus: From Organizational Culture To Bureaucratic Symbolic Violencesupporting

confidence: 60%

Enchanting bureaucracy: Symbolic violence and the (re)production of charismatic authority in a police apparatus

Hathazy

2012

International Sociology

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“…The suggestion is reminiscent of Chester Barnard's statement that a necessary complement to the consistency provided by formal organization is the vitality which informal organization generates (Barnard, 1938). Case studies such as those of Reissman (1949), Davis (1948), and Gouldner (1954) have focused on qualitative descriptions of bureaucracy in one or a very few organizations. None of these studies attempts to relate quantitative measures of bureaucratization to selected attributes of formal organizations.…”

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