Max Weber

social power. This power is typically handled in the form of government, but not all governments acquire power in legitimate ways. According to prominent sociologist Max Weber, there are only three legitimate avenues to social power: traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal. Traditional authority—or the ‘eternal yesterday’ as Weber puts it—is a dominant power which relies on tradition or custom. With this way of ruling, power is not challenged because this is how the society has always been…

The culture has been unfairly divided for centuries, including by race, social class and social status. Sociologist, Max Weber implied that individuals ought to be arranged in society by using certain factors. Not to mention there are a number of social classes, each of them consisting of distinctive characteristics. Family structures and neighborhoods are affected in both good and bad ways by these social classes. The social class inequality are perceived differently by the three theoretical…

The definition of the situation is a way of identify the situation, uses reason and science to figure out social problems and allows one to understand your life circumstances to help understand the issue or problem and interpret it in a moral context. Some examples of understanding the situation from our everyday lives are things like gun control and the sides of argument about guns, immigration with looking at the perspectives of people coming into the country and the people who oppose people…

Modern society is a complex phenomenon of which our understanding is hugely enhanced by the science of sociology. It is the scientific study of human interaction, social groups, whole societies and the world as such. Sociology entails devloping a ‘social imagination’ meaning linking personal troubles and public issues. (Sutton, 2013, S. 7) This social science aims to make the ambiguity of human interaction more accessible and concrete. It was Comte, who attributed the name sociology to the…

important figures are Max Weber (1864-1920) and Emil Durkheim (1858-1917). I will be comparing and contrasting Durkheim and Weber based on their perspective on religion. Religion plays role in shaping acceptable social behavior and the history of society. Both sociologists believed that religion holds power over societies and its people, yet the religious background of these two important sociologists is an important factor to why they have a different theory on the topic of religion. Weber and…

Application Project Max Weber built his theory of social stratification on Georg Simmel’s theory of money and Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism. As he watched capitalism change in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Weber formed the notion that many factors define a variety of social and economic positions, and an individual’s “life chances” – the level of access to resources such as food, shelter, health care, education and legal representation – is determined by separate continuums of wealth, power…

In the book Emile or on the education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher provided a treaty dealing with the art to create perfect good men. Through the life of Emile, a fictive character, the text provides, step-by-step the educational question and how people must be educated in our society. The question of the education has always been a significant issue in our society. According to the dictionary, education is: “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially…

An interview is when an interviewer ask specific questions to a selected person in order to get information about a certain topic. Positives to interviewing a person would be more personal responses given by the person for a specific topic and also the person can go more in depth with answers. Negatives to interviewing a person would be the possibility of the person lying about answers given and also a small sample size. I had the opportunity to personally interview a person. The person that I…

are learnt through socialisation. Socialisation is talking to other people. There are two types; primary socialisation which occurs in the family and is the first form of socialisation encountered, and secondary socialisation which progresses beyond the family in various social settings such as nursery, school, and work. Therefore, norms (how people are expected to behave) are created. People are expected to have the right values and beliefs. Values are things that we believe to be important.…

It simply reinforces the concept of socialization. These are categorized into two groups, namely primary and secondary. The primary agents of socialization enforce these unofficial rules of society, they are the family and our peer groups. This is how, as Durkheim claimed the moral codes are implanted. The Family functions as an institution of social control by socializing individuals as to accepted and expected norms, values and standards of behaviour of the wider society. If we conform we are…