That Weber is a social evolutionist—that is, asserting cumulative systemic change—is attested to throughout his writings. He uses the term “evolution” extensively in his writings, even using it in several chapter and section headings in his General Sociology. While he is far too much of a systems theorist to assert the near “single-causality” of Marx and his followers, he clearly gives material and structural factors great weight in his analysis of sociocultural change.

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