ed as being made to pass away: change for the sake of change” (6).
While many studies focus on the drug addiction, alcoholism, moral decadence, and trends of the wealthy when covering the period known in France as fin de siècle, Weber’s work attempts to show us that many aspects of society changed for the better. While many fought against change, the changes that eventually were adopted by the masses were good in many ways. New technologies, social reconstruction, and new levels of power for the proletariat and women led to changes that had a positive impact on the daily lives of commoners and bourgeois French. Weber does a credible job of using the art and literature of the period and contemporary journalism and social commentary to demonstrate
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