Max Weber Summary

Weber, Max WEBER, MAX (1864–1920), German sociologist, was the most influential (and in many respects the most profound) of twentieth-century social scientists. Educated as a legal historian, M... Read more

Weber, Max (1864-1920) Max Weber was one of the founding figures of sociology. His work is important to students of communication for several reasons, including his methodological and theoretical inno... Read more

Weber, Max(1864–1920) Max Weber, the German sociologist, historian, and philosopher, was raised in Berlin. His father was a lawyer and National Liberal parliamentary deputy, his mother a woman ... Read more

The German social scientist Max Weber (1864-1920) was a founder of modern sociological thought. His historical and comparative studies of the great civilizations are a landmark in the history of socio... Read more

The German social scientist Max Weber initiated modern sociological thought and his historical and comparative studies are a landmark in the history of sociology. Weber was interested in charting the ... Read more

Originally delivered as a lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in 1962, the following essay examines the role of authority and bureaucracy in Weber's soci... Read more

In the following essay, Wrong explains the influence of Marxist theory on Weber's thought. The failure of our multiple particular researches conducted with increasingly precise and complex m... Read more

In the following essay, Turner discusses Weber as a neo-Kantian thinker, and contrasts his sociological ideas with those of Karl Marx. With the development of various radical movements in the socia... Read more

Originally delivered as a lecture at a meeting of the American Sociological Association in 1964, the following essay articulates major objections to Weber's socio-political views, concluding th... Read more

In the following essay, which was originally presented as a lecture at the University of Constance in 1973, Mayer contends that Marx's theories only became an important element of Weber'... Read more

In the following essay, King discusses Weber's struggle with the alienation and moral stringency of Puritanism as evidenced in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. If my own a... Read more

In the following essay, Murvar discusses major issues in the critical literature on Weber's writings. Max Weber (1864-1920) is generally recognized as one of the major figures in sociologica... Read more