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Industrial Society and the Organizational Theory of Max Weber

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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