According to Max Weber, Why Does Society Need to Transform

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Essay

According to Max Weber, why does society need to transform power into authority? In what three ways does this transformation take place? What is the link between traditional authority and preindustrial production? How are rational-legal authority and industrial/postindustrial production linked?

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Definitions:

Cognitive Development

The process by which a person's ability to think, understand, and learn evolves over time from childhood through adulthood.

Jean Piaget

A Swiss psychologist renowned for his pioneering work in child development, particularly his theory of cognitive development.

Theory

A coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation.

Accommodation

In cognitive development, the process by which individuals adjust their schemas to incorporate new information.