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This 11 page paper answers the question with a "no" but both sides of the equation are equally explored. Weber's ideas about bureaucracy are considered along with definitions on industrial society. Social stratification is also discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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defined society by class and continually talked about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. Other theorists, particularly those who arose later, had more complex analyses showing a significantly stratified society by
age, gender, race, and socioeconomic status. While that is the case, it does also seem to be the case that such stratification did not come about until industrial society also
evolved. Prior to human industry and innovation, people were able to live rather peacefully. On the other hand, one could also point out that society was essentially divided at least
in two to show the haves and the have nots. The French Revolution for example took place in the later part of the eighteenth century, but the war was predicated
on this distinction between the poor and the privileged. In modern industrial society things are more complex. Questions about society are also more difficult to answer. It is not
as if the Queen is sitting on the throne, throwing bread crumbs at the proletariat, but rather, there are people of various levels of comfort. There are struggling families who
live check to check but manage to have cable television and an array of high technology items that render them not quite so poor. There are those who are truly
poor in impoverished countries who scramble for food, and then there are the billionaires. There are so many strata, there is no longer a distinguishing between classes. Yet, when all
is said and done, the argument goes to bureaucracy and organization. How is society ordered and organized and are earlier theorists ideas valid in this day and age? Much that
can be gleaned from such a discussion can help to answer the questions on class differentials, but they can also answer questions that go to the proficiency in the running
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