SPECIALIZATION – THE HIDDEN FEATURE OF THE ROMAN PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Żyromski, Marek (Poznań)
POMOERIVM 1 (1994) ISSN 0945-2354
Abstract
Specialization seems to be one of the main features of the modern bureaucratic systems. Persons, who begin the professional activity in the given area (e.g., army, economy, justiciary, finance, etc.), usually spend all their life in this area. The great complexity of modern social reality usually unables to requalify during the professional career. So, the social promotion (and sometimes the social degra- dation), is connected with reaching the 
next steps in the social ladder (or pyramid), rather than with changing the sort of life activity. Each new post in the bureaucratic hierarchy is much more important and more powerful than the previous one; simultaneously it imposes many more obligations. Gradually, each official becomes the specialist in his field of professional activity. The group of highly educated, loyal and trained specialists is the base for every efficient system of administration. The great German sociologist and historian Max Weber (1864-1920), who created the sociological concept of bureaucracy, named the Roman Empire as one of the finest examples of the bureaucratic systems of government.
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