SOCL 3101 Chapter : SOCL 3101 Week Of 9 19 2016
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Exam date: monday, oct 3; wed, oct 5 (based on votes 13 votes vs. 30) Weber believes that marx is wrong because there are many pathways to power. Power can be inherited: wealth is not only way to power, prestige also gives power to society, under the caste system in india, the people at the top of the society are the religious, the brahmans. It comes from the bottom up because people are giving out their rights to have power: traditional authority long-standing ways of doing things. Gandhi and martin luther king, jr. pushed through civil rights, jesus, joan darc are examples: however, anything can happen to the leader. Sometimes, substitutes can happen but at times it can be the exception: the routinization of charisma switching leaders becomes routine and not controversial, rational-legal authority authority based on formal, clearly stated rule.
