ITHACA, N.Y. -- Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist, economist and political scientist who is known not only as one of the world's most important social scientists because he founded ...

In their introduction to From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, which included the first widely available English translations of Weber’s two vocation lectures, they suggested that Weber had been ...

He is the author of Max Weber in Context: Essays in the History of German Ideas, c. 1870–1930. This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.

Max Weber, the north German economist, proud reserve officer in the Kaiser's army, literal dueler with academic opponents, and co-founder of modern sociology, sits on every college reading list ...

A.B.D.: A dissertation is not merely a prerequisite for an academic job. It may set the stage for a scholar’s life project. So the doctoral dissertations of Max Weber and Jacques Derrida, never ...

The German sociologist Max Weber was the first great theorist of the Protestant ethic. If all scholarship is autobiography, it brings an odd comfort to learn that he had himself suffered a nervous ...

It's been 100 years since the death of the great German intellectual, Max Weber. He was only fifty-six at the time, but left behind several landmark works and a whole new discipline — sociology ...

The sociologist Max Weber spent much of his life seduced by this second fable. A scholar of hot temper and volcanic energy, Weber longed to be a politician of cold focus and hard reason.

As the sociologist Max Weber argued in his 1921 classic "Economy and Society," bureaucrats represent a set of critical ideals: upholding expert knowledge, promoting equal treatment and serving others.

In 1904, the sociologist Max Weber traveled across the United States, loved what he saw and wrote about it. In return, America became a fan of Max Weber’s writings long before his homeland ...