1. Marx, Weber, and Wallerstein
The first substantial theorists on social change were Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto. ... At the time Marx was alive the industrial revolution was in full swing. ... Both Weber and Marx agree that class can be summed up in the workers and the owners, but Weber furthered Marx's ideas by introducing other units like status groups and political parties. Weber argued that Marx was too broad in his assumptions of classes. ... For example, at the end of World War II when the USSR brought the "iron curtain" down across Eastern Europe this changed the whole...
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