Strat 7: Max Weber

Question 1

D: What are ‘life chances’?

E: What are the 3 elements that influence your life chances?

C: Give 3 examples of areas in a person’s life that are impacted by life chances.

Answer 1

D: The opportunities a person has to improve their quality of life.

E: Class, status and power.

C: health, education, occupation, leisure.

Question 2

D: Did Weber agree with Marx about social class?

E: Did Weber agree with Marx about the chances of a revolution?

C: What is a ‘party group’?

Answer 2

D: No, he thought that there were more than 2.

E: No, but he did think that some groups might take action together in society.

C: A group of people who share the same interests in changings something in society.

Question 3

D: Define status

E: Define power

C: Define class

Answer 3

D: Social prestige, or honour.

E: Ability to make something happen, even if others don’t agree with you.

C: A person’s position in the labour market (the skills, education and experience they can exchange for wages).

Question 4

D: What are a person’s social characteristics?

E: How many different types of power did Weber identify?

C: Define the different types of power.

Answer 4

D: social class, age, ethnicity, gender.

E: 3

C: Charismatic: based on personality. (Martin Luther King Jnr)
Traditional: based on customs and laws (The Queen)
Rational legal: The position gives a person power. (The Prime Minister)

Question 5

D: Weber is one of the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology- who are the other 2?

E: Did Weber publish his study before or after the other 2?

C: In which country did each of the ‘founding fathers’ live?

Answer 5

D: Marx and Durkheim.

E: Weber published last.

C: Marx- wrote in London, after moving from Prussia (now in Germany)
Durkheim- France
Weber- Germany.