Why Is Weber More Acceptable Than Marx to Certain Schools

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Multiple Choice

Why is Weber more acceptable than Marx to certain schools of sociology, especially in the United States?

• A) Weber appeals to sensibilities conditioned by a society that is generally antiradical and believes that individuals are not shaped by economics.
• B) Weber's vagueness allows American sociologists to fit him to their agenda.
• C) Marx had omitted the importance of bureaucracies in the modern era such that Weber is a necessary and profound course correction.
• D) Weber is the more authentic because he saw that the proletariat, as a class, would need a political party to act on its behalf, that is, an intelligentsia (e.g. the Bolsheviks).

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