1.5 Scope and Limitation The Notebook novel has a large scope refers to the main problem. There are many aspects in the novel that can be analyzed. The scope of this research is focus on describing the social class through Max Weber’s sociological theory in the novel entitled The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks. For this research, the writer would like to limit the study to avoid the large of the scope analysis. The limitation bos5000 is the evidence from characters in the novel. The data collected is in the form of dialogues and narratives from the novel. 1.6 Conceptual Framework A conceptual framework represents the researcher’s synthesis of literature on how to explain a phenomenon. It maps out the actions required in the course of the study given the previous knowledge of other researcher’s point of view and the observations on the subject of research. This chart below shows the theoretical framework of the research. 5 Sociological theory Social Class Analysis (Max Weber’s Sociological Theory) Conclusion Figure 1.1 Conceptual Framework In this conceptual framework, the writer chooses The Notebook novel as the object to be analyzed. The writer uses Sociological theory by Max Weber to analyze this research. From Sociological theory, the writer analyzed the social class (low, middle and upper class) that have three important points to classify the social class,there are power, prestige and wealthy. For the last, the writer make a conclusion to complete this research and give a suggestion for the next researchers who wants to analyze social class