The era of progressivism is a period in the history of the United States characterized by high political activity of the middle class and the social grassroots, which led to large-scale social and political reforms. Progressives fought to set a minimum wage for female workers, ban child labor, and improve regulations for factories (Matthew Mooney, 2017). In the context of this video lies the idea that progressives fought for the rights of certain groups of people who were once deprived of them, the struggle for justice and for the eradication of corruption.
In the theory of Weber, the organization is a stable, closed, rigid model corresponding to the stage of machine production. Currently, some European companies, such as Volkswagen, use a bureaucratic management style (Organizational Communication Channel, 2016). Organizations have a single coherent set of goals that clearly indicate the main direction of activity and are formally translated into various sub-goals to be achieved. This theory is clear and specific for any organization, as it provides specific recommendations for establishing a workflow.
Lough’s article describes the actions of progressives that were aimed at transforming society, improving working conditions, and introducing taxes. Lough (2016) states that these articles also address the efforts of local governments to revitalize municipal governance. The context of this article also says that it was necessary to equalize all people through the introduction of taxes, the adoption of specific laws, and the development of the industry.
The context of the article on community psychology is aimed at studying, analyzing, and expanding knowledge in the field of psychology of people who are in a single society. Trickett (2009) explains how people with different skills, knowledge, worldviews, and resources deal with and adapt to the contexts of their local community. According to his theory, the life of other people consists of different contexts.
The context of Lipsky’s theory is that the street bureaucracy accepts different types of customer relations. Kosar & Schachter (2011) argue that the street bureaucrat tries to preserve the client’s idealized view of the work of this bureaucrat. The street bureaucracy does not have enough resources to meet the current demand. Moreover, the people faced by street bureaucrats do not always meet the required reference groups of bureaucrats, which does not allow them to work with clients fully.
References
Kosar, Kevin & Schachter, Hindy. (2011). Street-level bureaucracy: The dilemmas of the endure. Public administration review, vol. 71 (2), pp. 299-302.
Lough, Alexandra. (2016). Editor’s Introduction: The Politics of Urban Reform in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870–1920. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 75 (1), pp. 8-22.
Mooney, Matthew. (2017). Progressive era [Video]. YouTube. Web.
Organizational Communication Channel. (2016). Max Weber bureaucracy [Video]. YouTube. Web.
Trickett, Edison. (2009). Community Psychology: Individuals and Interventions in Community Context. Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 60, pp. 395-419.