Bureaucratic routines both reflect and reproduce prevailing social structures

Evidence

Even if it were possible to restructure street-level bureaucracies in these ways, what would keep people from drifting into the old patterns? This is a particularly significant question if we believe that bureaucracy to some degree reflects as well as reinforces and perpetuates the prevailing social structures. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1499

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s hypothesis that administrative practice perpetuates cultural stereotypes rather than only expressing them.