Max Weber
By Abby Roxby
Background
- Known for Protestant Ethic/ Protestant to capitalism
- Family became wealthy in German linen industry
- Father and mother were a big impact on his life
- We we left home to enroll at the University of Heidelberg in 1882
- Two years of study then into the military for on year at Strassbourg
- Being away brought him closer to his family
- Father wanted him to finish his studies at University of Berlin
- 1884 until marriage in 1993, lived at home; only left for a semester
- 1893 got a temporary job in jurisprudence
- Married his second cousin, Marianne Schnitger
- Became full professor in political economy
- High point of career; Inaugural Address 1895
- 1903 resume scholarly work after death of his father
- In Weber's power-politics, he observed that is was "the reverberation of a position of world power that exposed English citizens to 'chronic' political schooling." Which made things like the empire-building and liberal democracy.
Interesting Facts
- known as principal architect of modern social science
- Developed concept of bureaucracy
- Two most celebrated contributions: rationalization thesis & Protestant Ethic thesis
- Gave up his teaching when father died and did not pick it back up till years later
- 1909, co-founded Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Soziologie (German Sociological Association)
- High point in career, his inaugural address at Freiburg
- Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Had restricted audience for a lot of his published work
- Major impact was not until he died
- Helped create literature associated with sociology of religion
Methodology- A system of methods used in a particular area of study