Max Weber (1864-1920)
A Max Weber (1864-1920) was a person.
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2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber Retrieved:2014-4-7.
- Karl Emil Maximilian “Max” Weber (Template:IPA-de; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology. [1] Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founding creators of sociology. [2] Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empiricist) means, based on understanding the purpose and meaning that individuals attach to their own actions. Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularisation, and “disenchantment” that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity, and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world. Weber is best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state. Against Marx's “historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance of cultural influences embedded in religion as a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism. [3] The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigations into world religion: he would go on to examine the religions of China, the religions of India and ancient Judaism, with particular regard to the apparent non-development of capitalism in the corresponding societies, as well as to their differing forms of social stratification.Template:Ref label
In another major work, Politics as a Vocation, Weber defined the state as an entity which successfully claims a “monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory". He was also the first to categorise social authority into distinct forms, which he labelled as charismatic, traditional, and rational-legal. His analysis of bureaucracy emphasised that modern state institutions are increasingly based on rational-legal authority.
Weber also made a variety of other contributions in economic history, as well as economic theory and methodology. Weber's analysis of modernity and rationalisation significantly influenced the critical theory associated with the Frankfurt School.
After the First World War, Max Weber was among the founders of the liberal German Democratic Party. He also ran unsuccessfully for a seat in parliament and served as advisor to the committee that drafted the ill-fated democratic Weimar Constitution of 1919. After contracting the Spanish flu, he died of pneumonia in 1920, aged 56.
- Karl Emil Maximilian “Max” Weber (Template:IPA-de; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the entire discipline of sociology. [1] Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founding creators of sociology. [2] Weber was a key proponent of methodological antipositivism, arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empiricist) means, based on understanding the purpose and meaning that individuals attach to their own actions. Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularisation, and “disenchantment” that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity, and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world. Weber is best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state. Against Marx's “historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance of cultural influences embedded in religion as a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism. [3] The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigations into world religion: he would go on to examine the religions of China, the religions of India and ancient Judaism, with particular regard to the apparent non-development of capitalism in the corresponding societies, as well as to their differing forms of social stratification.Template:Ref label
- ↑ "Max Weber." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 20 April 2009. Britannica.com
- ↑ Radkau, Joachim and Patrick Ca miller. (2009). Max Weber: A Biography. Trans. Patrick Ca miller. Polity Press. (ISBN 9780745641478)
- ↑ Weber, Max The Protestant Ethic and "The Spirit of Capitalism” (1905). Translated by Stephen Kalberg (2002), Roxbury Publishing Company, pp. 19, 35; Weber's references on these pages to "Superstructure" and "base" are unambiguous references to Marxism's base/superstructure theory.
192?
- (Weber, 192?) ⇒ Max Weber. (192?). “Economy and Society: An outline of interpretive sociology."
1919
- (Weber, 1919) ⇒ Max Weber. (1919). “Politics as a Vocation (Politik als Beruf)"
1905
- (Weber, 1905) ⇒ Max Weber. (1905). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism."
19??
- (Weber, 19??) ⇒ Max Weber. (19??). “The methodology of the social sciences." (1949).
- (Weber, 19??) ⇒ Max Weber. (19??). “The theory of social and economic organization."
- (Weber, 19??) ⇒ Max Weber. (19??). “Science as a Vocation."