Max Weber

A Germany philosopher, jurist, economist and a sociologist, who influenced the social theory and social research with his profound ideas, max Weber was born in 1864 and died in 1920. In numbers it seems Weber spent few years on the surface of this life supporter but the bulk of his works is what lives on even after his death. A person who neither considered academics to be the mother everything nor found school to be interesting, Weber never wrote big academic book that were associated with academicians but what mattered to him was his presence and power in dedicating his pure mind to his audiences. The impact of his nervous disorder proves to be a crucial weapon to most of his works unlike others who think in the direction. His famous remarks’ I am not a donkey and do not have a field’ explains why he pursue different fields. Best known for his works in different field that included; Weberian bureaucracy, disenchantment, methodological individualism, rationalization, protestant work ethic and tripartite classification of authority.

The year 1904

This is the year Weber took over a joint editorship of a social scientific journal that was leading at the time. From that time Weber wrote essays that until today are still celebrated, the essays were latter published together as the protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism. This is what laid the foundation of his future works. In the same year he took up an invitation to speak to a congregation at the congress of arts and science on rural societies that he met Du Bois, latter after several months weber published an essay that translated to as “the objectivity of social scientific and social political knowledge”. This was his elaborate and original claim that explained the benefit of constructing ‘ideal types’ so as problems of relativism could be solved.

The protestant versus capitalism

This was a book that Weber published by combining his various essays it is considered to be the founding information in the sociology and economic sociology. In the book Weber elaborated on the combination of the economical sociology and the sociology of the religion. He emphasized on the importance of religion embedded cultural influences as a way of understanding the beginning of capitalism.

People have diverging views on capitalism. Some feel that it is the best way for an economy whereas the people against this idea support communism.

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