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A society is a group of people who form a distinct community, an evolving system, sharing cultures and institutions. Thus, the meaning of society is closely related to what is considered to be social. Implicit in the meaning of society is that its members may share some mutual concern or interest, a common objective or common characteristics.

The social sciences generally use the term society to mean a group of people who form a semi-closed social system which is still ever-changing. Most interactions are with other individuals belonging to the group along with new individuals entering as well as leaving the group at any time. More abstractly, a society is defined as a network of relationships between social entities. A society is also sometimes defined as an interdependent community, but the sociologist Tönnies saw a contradiction between “society” and “community.” An important feature of society is social structure, aspects of which include roles and social ranking.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (pronounced [maks 'veːbɐ]) (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Weber became a lawyer, politician, scholar, political economist, and sociologist. He was an indefatigable and eclectic writer who founded or co-founded a number of now separate academic disciplines, including public administration & organizational theory, and the modern study of sociology. He is often regarded as one of the three 'founding fathers' of sociology in particular - the other chief figures being Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. He was also a polyglot who in his lifetime mastered four foreign languages and became a major scholar of religion as well, writing on the ancient religions of Judaism, India and China. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at the universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Munich.

Weber's major works deal with rationalization in sociology of religion, government, organizational theory, and behavior. His most famous work is his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which began his work in the sociology of religion. In this work, Weber argued that religion was one of the non-exclusive reasons for the different ways the cultures of the Occident and the Orient have developed, and stressed that particular characteristics of ascetic Protestantism influenced the development of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal state in the West. Some have used Weber's work on The Protestant Ethic as an argument that human institutions were not shaped by inevitable materialism, as Marx had argued, but by religious ideals and ideas which could not be reduced to material causation. In another major work, Politics as a Vocation, Weber defined the state as an entity which claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force, a definition that became pivotal to the study of modern Western political science. His analysis of bureaucracy in his Economy and Society is still central to the modern study of organizations. His most known contributions are often referred to as the 'Weber Thesis'. He was the first to recognize several diverse aspects of social authority, including charismatic, traditional, and legitimate forms of authority. His work on bureaucracies noted that these institutions were based on legitimate--or legal--authority. Thus he saw bureaucracies as mitigating the effects of "personalism" in organizations. However, this writing was sometimes seen as prescriptive, e.g. by his western mediators, such as Harvard's Talcott Parsons (translator of Economy and Society, 1947).


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When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use in attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.

John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions (1859)

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