VI. Bureaucracy Section VI.1. Bureaucracy (p. 98 – p.99) Words:

organization (ch. 1, # 1¹⁰)

socialization (ch. 6, # 1)

corporation (ch. 6, # 6)

bureaucracy (ch. 6, # 2)

mass media (ch.6, # 3)

welfare agency

dramatically

law

supplier

frustration

customer

virtually

paradoxical

actual

comparable

establishment

to emphasize smth.

to disseminate smth.

to employ smb.

to alter smth.

to assert smth.

to ignore smth.

to confront smth.

to imply smth.

Phrases:

complex organization

state organization

religious organization

formal organization

organizational society

additional socialization

vast bureaucracies

to be subject to smth./ doing (smth.)

law of nation

law of state

law of municipality

medical establishment

mortuary establishment

religious establishment

insurance establishment

political apparatus

to enforce law

to be adjudicated by court system

to be essential to smth.

to sustain life

to result from smth.

to be similar to smth.

beyond one's control

beyond one's recognition

to be unaware of smth.

to be powerless to do smth.

on the one hand

on the other hand

to have smth. in common

a network of organizations

to focus upon smth.

to refer to smth.

Commentaries and notes:

Federal Reserve System [Федеральная резервная система] (and FR Board [Совет директоров Федеральной резервной системы]) - central banking authority of the United States. It acts as a fiscal agent for the US government, is custodian of the reserve accounts of commercial banks, makes loans to commercial banks, and is authorized to issue F.R. notes that constitute the entire supply of paper currency of the country. Created by F.R. Act of 1913, the System consists of the Board of Governors of the F.R.S., the 12 F.R. banks, the Federal Open Market Committee, the F. Advisory Council, and, since 1976, a Consumer Advisory Council; there are several thousand member banks.

The conditions of modern life differ... from those of any earlier period (p. 97) - стилистический заместитель слова "conditions" (см. Грамматика: раздел "Эмфатические конструкции").

Virtually all of the goods ¹| | that sustain life and lend character to it ³| | are created and delivered ² through... (p. 97) - 1) подлежащее, 2) сказуемое, 3) определение к подлежащему, выраженное придаточным предложением (см. Грамматика: раздел "Эмфатические конструкции").

To assert ¹| | that life is influenced by... ³| | implies ² that... (p. 98) - 1) подлежащее, выраженное инфинитивом (см. Грамматика: раздел "Инфинитив"), 2) сказуемое, 3) дополнение к подлежащему, выраженное придаточным предложением (см. Грамматика: раздел "Эмфатические конструкции").

Exercises:

1. Find Russian equivalents for the following English phrases:

to enforce law, to result from, to employ smb., beyond one's control, beyond one's recognition, to alter smth., to assert smth., to be similar to smth., to ignore smth., to confront smth., to be powerless to do smth., to be unaware of smth., to have smth. in common, to refer to smth., to be subject to smth., to be essential to smth.., to emphasize smth., a network of organizations, law of state, political appratus.