Max Weber : Bureaucracy, Charisma, Charismatic Authority, Disenchantment, Ideal Type, Inner-Worldly Asceticism, Interpretations of Weber's Liberalism,

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Bureaucracy, Charisma, Charismatic authority, Disenchantment, Ideal type, Inner-worldly asceticism, Interpretations of Weber's liberalism, Iron cage, Life chances, Marianne Weber, Monopoly on violence, Protestant work ethic, Rational-legal authority, Rationalization (sociology), Three-component theory of stratification, Traditional authority, Tripartite classification of authority, Verstehen, Weber and German politics. Excerpt: Maximilian Karl Emil "Max" Weber (German: 21 April 1864 - 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist whose ideas influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself. Weber is often cited, with Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three founding architects of sociology. 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 perhaps 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. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1230577378
• ISBN13: 9781230577371
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Books LLC
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"