This thinker posited that people's ability to improve their lives depends on the resources available to them in his "life chances" hypothesis.
This thinker posited that people's ability to improve their lives depends on the resources available to them in his "life chances" hypothesis. George Ritzer expanded upon this thinker's work to coin a term that refers to the process through which a society becomes structured like a fast-food restaurant. The term "McDonaldization" is based on the work of this thinker, who argued that society was devaluing mysticism and going through a process of disenchantment, through which the bureaucracy imposed an "iron cage" of rationality. He claimed that the state had a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Politics as a Vocation. For 10 points, what thinker examined how Calvinism motivated economic growth in his The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
This thinker posited that people's ability to improve their lives depends on the resources available to them in his "life chances" hypothesis.
Max Weber (mahks VAY-bur)