MAX WEBER

Max Weber

[Institution Name]Max Weber

Introduction

Our paper will focus on the discussions regarding Max Weber as one of the best sociologist and about his book the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit. His accomplishments will also be a part of this paper.

Max Weber is probably best known in the field of sociology than of economics. In fact, it is considered by many as the greatest German authority in the social sciences. However, their contributions to the economy are quite interesting, to connect the science to political and religious.

Weber was born in Erfurt in the former Prussia, April 21, 1864. He was the eldest of eight children of a Prussian lawyer and politician, who came from a family of textile manufacturers. The prestige gained by his early writings brought him in 1893, the appointment of Professor of Political Economy, University of Freiburg and a year later, and the description in the same chair at the University of Heidelberg. It was here where fate would play a trick on Max Weber.

He is the author of numerous books and essays, some published years after his death, he was considered one of the founders of modern sociology, politics, economics, religion and history. He was one of the great thinkers of his time.

Discussion

Max Weber, an eminent German sociologist and politician, was born on April 21, 1864 and died on June 14, 1920. In sociology, he pulled out a synthesis of the theoretical and the historical system by individualizing method in the social sciences. Its importance for the philosophy, especially for the epistemology and philosophy of science is its theory of Postulate of value freedom.

Throughout his life, he met two wars; a World War (1914-1918) and three revolutions (the 1905 and 1917 in Russia and 1918 in Germany). His dissection of middle class society, therefore, is also a consequence of living knowledge of history and of their immediate experience of the cultural transformation of the world. Born in the liberal enlightened family, they have been the powerful Prussian landowners gentrified and end up being that of labor tensions and the rise of social democracy.

His father was a lawyer and deputy, and he was brought up within a complex family of intellectuals, and businessmen and trained in the brutal "iron prison" of the University of his times. This was the cause of his depression and a known premature death at 56 years. A testimony to Weber's analysis of industrial concentration and the ideological consequences of economy, modern and radical transforms inherits as much as the prehistoric Protestant ideological landscape. His analysis of religion, politics and forms of legislation are inseparable experiences of change, between 1864 and 1920, in Germany and almost entire Western Europe.

During a visit, he made his parents; there was a heated discussion between Max Weber and his father. A few days later, he would have died without being reconciled. Max Weber felt guilty about his death. From that time suffered a series of nervous breakdowns that involved hospital stays and interruption of their work ...