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Max Weber's observations and conclusions regarding modernity and its causes have named him one of the most influential sociologists of our era. Weber believed that in the West rationality had come to become the predominant impetus for action. Weber said that Rationality was one of four motivations towards actions--the remaining three, Traditional, Affective, and Value-Oriented, had been based on more humanistic qualities and had all faded into almost insignificance in the modern age. He thought that

American society has evolved and achieved so much from historical, social reform movements of the 1960's and 1970's. By the time the decade ended, these movements had challenged the 1950's perspective of America's freedom. American society was confronted with the fact that certain groups, including students, women, members of racial minorities, and homosexuals, felt themselves excluded from full enjoyment of American freedom. Many states illegally denied many of these rights to African-Americans