Max Planck

So the power didn't lie with any one person it lay with the people, with the attainment of a classless communist society. There is however a theory of power completely different to Karl Marx's. This theory of power is known as Elitism and was developed by two Italian Political scientists, Pareto and Mosca. They believed that power lay with an Elite over the powerless minority. An elite would be someone with supreme psychological characteristics; historical…

A particular example of social fact is racism. Racism is described as the belief in racial differences, which can cause discriminatory acts – where a distinct biological group is described as inferior; the members of a particular race are commonly faced with derogatory racial based comments, stereotypes and non-equal treatment. One of the main causes of racism is an individuals surrounding factors during their years of development and education – the passing down from generation to…

Secularization refers to the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values toward non-religious values. It refers to the belief that as societies progress, particularly through modernization and rationalization, religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance. Stark provides many pieces of evidence that disagree with the theory of secularization. He believes that secularization is an exaggeration that has been passed over the years - a…

people saying, “Google” something or did you “blog” about it. Ritzer did the same thing with the famous fast-food restaurant McDonalds in his book McDonaldization. With that, I will discuss the dimensions of McDonaldization, what bureaucracy is, what Max Weber’s “Iron Cage” is, how the Holocaust relates to bureaucracy,…

In most peoples perspectives Canada is known as a meritocratic system. A society in which people have an influence or a superior status according to their abilities and achievements rather than their given social class. This goes hand in hand with what we perceive to be the “American Dream”. In the definition given by James Truslow Adamams about what the American Dream is, “ Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or…

Inequality of wealth intensified in reams of countries since the twentieth century (Lister, 2004: 53). Marx relates it to economic determination; in contrast Max Weber placed greater emphasis on social aspects. Marx & Weber were broadly known for their writings about this subject. “There has been a notable trend in recent years towards the convergence of Marxist and Weberian perspectives in the area of class…

Sociologist Robert Merton had a theory of people’s experience frustration. There are five modes of adaptation that Merton outlined. The first deviant reaction is conformity and this most of America. There was point in time when going to a university was not that important. The way America is now it is very important to go to school and get a higher education. So, a lot of people are conforming to the new way of society. They’re a lot more teens going to college from high school and there…

Max Weber’s perspective on religion compared to Emil Durkheim varies in many ways. Both theorists emphasize on two different approaches when studying religion. Weber was an anti-positivism and Durkheim was positivism. Meaning the subject matter being studied related to different concepts involving natural science and social science. Durkheim was focused on the systematic approach of religion. Weber was writing from a point of view coming from his father being a successful “business man.” Max…

Organizational Structure Organizational structure is “the way in which job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated (Robbins & Judge, 2009).” The success and development of the organization depends on how effective the way it was structured. Some organizations prefer to use different structures compared to other organizations for an array of reasons, such as: the size of the organization, the environmental factors the organization confronts, the type of industry the organization…

The use of technology is becoming increasingly apparent in todays elementary and high schools. Although technology and social media has many positive qualities, the shortcomings of this modern technology are putting adolescents lives at risk. Cyberbullying is an ongoing and increasingly problematic social issue in today’s society. Cyberbullying is “the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature” (“Oxford Dictionary”,…