The Honour Principle in the 'Bureaucratic Phenomenon'
对比了法国两种行动模式:克罗齐耶的官僚模型与孟德斯鸠的荣誉原则,并用符号学方法解释为何看似过时的运作方式能长期存在。
The aim of the paper is to confront two models of the French pattern of action: the well-known 'bureaucratic' model, depicted by Michel Crozier, and a model which emphasizes the persistence within modern French organizations of what Montesquieu called the honour principle. This model is tested successfully against the ethnographical material presented in The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. In addi tion, the paper explains, using a semiotic approach to culture, how a mode of functioning said to be archaic can persist in the long run.