一科层制(Bureaucracy,又译作“官僚制”)是组织社会学的一个重要研究领域,事实上,组织社会学发展初期的经典研究基本上都是围绕着科层制展开的。自韦伯(Marx Weber)以来,科层制引起了许多杰出社会学家和经济学家的关注,这些人包括“中层理论”的提出者默顿(Robert Merton)及其弟子古尔德纳(Alvin Gouldner)、塞尔兹尼克(PhilipSelznick)、李普塞特(S.Lipset)和布劳(Peter Blau), Bureaucracy (Bureaucracy, also translated as “bureaucracy”) is an important field of sociology of organization, in fact, the organization of the early stages of sociology of classical research are basically around the bureaucratic system. Bureaucraticism has drawn the attention of many prominent sociologists and economists since Marx Weber, including Robert Merton, the proponent of “middle theory,” and his disciple, Gouldner Alvin Gouldner, Philip Selznick, S. Lipset and Peter Blau,