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other than food, shelter, and a mate, was Who is in charge? Over the centuries evolution may have been very kind to the human being, but one could argue, not
so kind to the process by which he chooses his leaders. Max Weber, a well-known social philosopher, had several theories on the way social structure is created and maintained by
the collective community and by the individual. This theory had a major influence on the shift in perspective toward the consensus approach and allowed these theories to also be applied
to the industrial sector. Communities, Weber observed, are made up of groups. These groups all have a perceived status which may or may
not be related to the perceived class of a person. These groups differ from one another in their apparent stratification, "stratification by status goes hand in hand with a monopolization
of ideal and material goods or opportunities (Weber, 2003). An example of this might, for instance, be the politically minded groups. Those groups which are at the grassroots level, have
a lower class that those who are the actual politicians and have the ability to affect policy. In this case, then, class has taken precedence of the status of the
group. Some groups, as in organization, are sometimes referred to as parties, Weber seems to state. Mostly, parties aim for some sort of social order or power or recognition. Some
good examples of a party as Weber defines them would be the Republican party, or the National Honor Society. Weber seemed to recognize the importance of considering such factors
as culture and religion into the interpretation of social interactions and social status. Weber theorized that changes in capitalism had to do with rationality and rationalism which ran counter to
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