Weber

• What four social classes did Weber identify?

  • Property owning upper class,
  • Professional middle class,
  • petty bourgeoisie,
  • Manual working class.
• What did Weber believe was the determining factor of class?

  An individual's market situation
• What are the three sources of power Weber identified?

  1. Charismatic - devotion to a leader with exceptional qualities
  2. Traditional - based on established customs and inherited status
  3. Rational legal - based on acceptance of shared impersonal rules