Max Weber Classical Sociological Theory - 1865 Words

Alba DelaCruz SOC 221 Sec 4: Classical Sociological Theory Professor Andrew Korall Assignment #2 Classical sociological theorists such as Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel are all considered pioneers in their field because of the innovative ideas and theories that they put forth about the societies and social worlds that they lived in. Weber warned about the increasing bureaucratization of our day to day lives and the isolation that could ensue if we let it run rampant. Durkheim made the extremely personal, impersonal through his study of suicide and spoke about the greater afflictions of the modern world that led societies to a literal breaking point. Simmel looked at the connections between individuals to understand society,†¦show more content†¦This dominance is mostly aptly explained in Giles Fraser’s piece for The Guardian titled â€Å"We must break free from the iron cage of this growing, dehumanising bureaucracy† in which the he describes the ubiquity of bureaucracy in the contemporary world and how we allow ourselves to be fully enmeshed in this inherently dehumanising system. Fraser gives a variety of examples of how bureaucracy permeates our day to day existence, but his most prominent one is when he talks about a parishioner of his that visits the emergency room with a serious medical condition and is told that he must take a number from a machine that will indicate the order in which he is attended to, he then proceeds to sit in the waiting room in agony for ages with no other interface to express his concerns to other than the ticket machine that is in place. 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