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Weber
Emphasis on great figures making history → charismatic personalities
Strength of the state: law and administration + great leadership figures
No social laws!
Politics: a continuous conflict over the control of scarce material and symbolic
Rationalization of life → Western society
Status groups: people who share a common occupational/professional position + values/lifestyle
Political associations + Parties
Authority = central to modern societies
Iron cage, we are prisoners
Rule of law
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