Max Weber (1864-1920)

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1. Max Weber (1864-1920)

Industrialization and urbanization changed marital roles and led to a redefinition of love, marriage, children and divorce.
Define strain theory: People who find their way to success blocked can come to see the institutionalized goals (such as working hard or pursuing higher education) as not applying to themselves. These people experience frustration, or what Merton called strain.
Protestant Ethic - He used cross-cultural and historical materials to trace the causes of social change and to determine how social groups affect people's orientations to life.
Class Conflict - believed that the roots of human misery lay in class conflict, the exploitation of workers by those who own the means of production. Social change, in the form of the workers overthrowing the capitalists was inevitable. Introduced conflict theory.

Max Weber (1864-1920)

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