Discussion
Assertion (A) and Reason (R) pattern :
Assertion (A) : Bureaucracy is a major element in the rationalization of the modern world.
Reason (R) : The protestant social ethics contributed to the ascendancy of Bureaucracy.
Codes :
Answer: B
The keyed answer is both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true: Max Weber saw bureaucracy as a major expression of the rationalization of modern life, with rules, offices and expertise replacing tradition and personal rule. (R) is true in the sense that Weber linked Protestant (Calvinist) ethics to the rational conduct of life that favoured modern capitalism and the rationalizing spirit of the age.
That link, however, explains the rise of the capitalist spirit more directly than the spread of bureaucracy, so the key does not treat it as the explanation of (A). The reading of (R) as true is a loose one, because Weber's thesis is about capitalism; I follow the key. Codes A, C and D are therefore wrong.
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