Where to find the readings: = Firestone Reserve/Graduate Reading Room (paper). = Electronic reserve/Blackboard course documents. = World Wide Web (click on the link in the syllabus). Rousseau, The ...
The historical development of church-sect theory is analyzed, and two major points are made. First, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of church-sect in its original use by Max Weber and ...
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Sociology has long wrestled with ways to define, evaluate and measure social inequality. Indeed, the consequences of equality and inequality are implicit to the writing of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, ...
Max Weber’s famous text The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) is surely one of the most misunderstood of all the canonical works regularly taught, mangled, and revered in ...
Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...
MAX WEBER was no believer in mystical doctrines of national genius, but he did believe that given societies had their own way of noticing, defining, and solving problems. There was, for example, a ...
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Max Weber's book the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Published in 1905, Weber's essay proposed that Protestantism had been a significant factor in ...