Max WEBER

Max Weber is best known as one of the leading scholars and founders of modern sociology and also an economist. He dealed with sociology of religion in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism. After his analysis on religions Weber mentioned that Calvinist (Protestan) religious ideas had had an important affects in developing social innovations and economic system of Europe and U.S. by stating that they are not the only factors in this improvement. His had studies about sociology of politics and government also.He seperated three types of political leadership, domination and authority: charismatic domination (familial and religious), traditional domination (patriarchs, patrimonalism, feudalism), and legal domination (modern law and state, bureaucracy.

While Max Weber is best known and recognised today as one of the leading scholars and founders of modern sociology, he also accomplished much in other fields, notably economics, although this is largely forgotten today among orthodox economists, who pay very little attention to his works. The view that Weber is at all influential to modern economists comes largely from non-economists and economic critics with sociology backgrounds. During his life distinctions between the social sciences were less clear than they are now, and Weber considered himself a historian and an economist first, sociologist distant second.From the view poin tof the economists Weber is thought to be a German historical school of economics. The one of the most important studies of Weber was the essay named “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” in this essay he discussed the difference between different religions and the relative wealth of their followers.The other important study of him was The theories about Verstehen (interprative sociology) and antipositivism (humanistic socilogy).

Max Weber formulated a three-component theory of stratification, with Social class, Social status and party (or politicals) as conceptually distinct elements

Social class: includes the relatioship (economical) with the market.(owner renter employee)

Status: noneconomical qualities (honur,prestige and religion)

Party: includes the political elements

Weber's other contributions to economics were several: these include a (seriously researched) economic history of Roman agrarian society, his work on the roles of idealism and materialism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society (1914) which present Weber's criticisms (or according to some, revisions) of some aspects of Marxism. Finally, his thoroughly researched General Economic History (1923) can be considered the Historical School at its empirical best.

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