Max Weber

Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern, antipositivistic study of sociology and public administration. His major works deal with rationalization in sociology of religion and government, but he also wrote much in the field of economics. His most recognized work is his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which began his work in the sociology of religion. Weber argued that religion was one of the primary reasons for the different ways the cultures of the Occident and the Orient have developed. In his other famous work, Politics as a Vocation, Weber defined the state as an entity which possesses a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force, a definition that became pivotal to the study of modern Western political science. His theory later became widely known as Weber's Thesis.

References

Weber's work is generally quoted according to the critical Gesamtausgabe (collected works edition), which is published by Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen, Germany.

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• Bendix, Reinhard (1960). Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. Doubleday.
• Kaesler, Dirk (1989). Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work. University of Chicago Press.
• Mommsen, Wolfgang (1974). Max Weber und die Deutsche Politik 1890-1920. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
• Roth, Guenther (2001). Max Webers deutsch-englische Familiengeschichte. J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
• Weber, Marianne (1929/1988). Max Weber: A Biography. New Brunswick: Transaction Books.
• Richard Swedberg, "Max Weber as an Economist and as a Sociologist", American Journal of Economics and Sociology