Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE

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Max Weber IDEAS ABOUT SOICETY AND HUMAN NATURE

• BUREACRACY
• IMPERSONAL
• IRON CAGE
• RATIONAL AUTHORITY
• PESSIMISTIC
• WILL JUST GET WORSE

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MAX WEBERSTARTIFICATION SYSTEM

• Based on Power
• Economic power
• Power for powers sake
• Power as basis of social honor
• Multidimensional Tripartite
• Social Order Social honor (status)
• Economic Order Market position in the economic
  order (class)
• Political Order Power to exert will (political
  party)

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MAX WEBERDEFINITION OF CLASS

• Commercial Class
• Position of individuals in the marketplace
• Skills, characteristics and demand
• opportunity to exploit the market
• Property or lack of it
• Propertied
• Non-propertied class

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MAX WEBERSTATUS GROUPCharacteristicsBased Upon
Social Estimation of Honor

• Lifestyles
• status conventions and traditions
• Endogamy
• restricted patterns of social interaction
  including marriage
• Material monopoly
• over certain economic activity and rejection of
  other economic activity.
• Sharing of benefits with the group.

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Max WeberStatus Transformation into Caste

• Stability over time
• Rituals, Laws, and Conventions
• reinforce and legitimize caste status
• Ethnic Component
• Segregation
• Vertical Distribution of Honor
• Ethnic Distinction becomes Functional

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Max WeberPower

• Action oriented towards achieving communal action
  for members
• Basis of party can be anything
• class, status, religion, etc..
• Leadership types
• traditional
• charismatic
• rational-legal

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Max WeberSocial Change

• Communal Action
• action based on feeling of actors that they
  belong together
• Societal Action
• rationally motivated adjustment of interests

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Max WeberSocial Change

• Likelihood of Class Action is Small Unless
• transparent connection between position and class
  situation
• immediate opponent on whom class can focus
• large number of people in the same class position
• goals interpreted by the intelligentsia
• Class for itself versus Class in itself
• interaction between classes
• most bitter among those who participate in price
  war

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Max WeberSocial Change

• Condition that contribute or diminish likelihood
  of social change
• threat to status order in favor of class results
  when
• technological reformation
• economic reformation
• Stability in Economic Order
• pushes status to the forefront and posters growth
  of status structure