Administrative stereotypes build on general social attitudes and are reinforced daily

Evidence

Second, conceptual modifications of the clientele tend to accept and build upon general social attitudes, and thus are reinforced in everyday life. Favoring clients who are underdogs or discriminating against clients considered socially unworthy may partly be explained by the sympathies and antipathies of the general society. Sociologist Howard Becker reports that children may be morally unacceptable to teachers in terms of values cen- tered around health and cleanliness, sex and aggression, ambition and work, and age-group relations. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1140

Categorization

• XREF: Links administration to cultural-narrative literature; useful for comparing rates of change between bureaucratic practice and ambient prejudice. — connects to: Bureaucratic stereotype patterns vary with city size and demographic heterogeneity — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 242; Bureaucratic routines both reflect and reproduce prevailing social structures — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1499

Broader Connections

• Bureaucratic routines both reflect and reproduce prevailing social structures #expands (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1499