You leap from a bridge with a bungee cord tied around your ankles. As you approach the river below, the bungee cord begins to stretch and you begin to slow down. The force of the cord on your ankles to slow you is your weight?

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.