Weber in the classroom

Describes an instrument designed to measure the "bureaucratic personality," based on the Weberian model, from the 6th to the 12th grade level, using the school as the environmental frame of reference. The Student Environmental Preference Schedule (SEPS) was compared to the previously developed adult Work Environmental Preference Schedule (WEPS). The WEPS and SEPS forms were found to be constructually comparable. The SEPS was significantly related to other personality variables in directions congruent with bureaucratic theory. Bureaucratic attitudes as measured by the SEPS decreased monotonically with increasing grade level, and were related negatively to intelligence and academic achievement and positively to favorableness toward a traditional school environment. Similar findings in India and Japan are noted. (25 ref.)