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Max weber likened the history of society to a train and ideas to the switchmen of the tracks. what does this mean?

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Ideas can be capable powers to make change and adjust the course of history when they are accepted by enough individuals at the suitable time.

Weber is best known for his proposal joining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, explained in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

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