Max Weber Theory

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Max weber (1864-1920) Biographical sketch about weber: Max weber was born in middle class family at Erfurt, Germany on April 21, 1864. His father was a bureaucrat and as an important political position and his mother was a devout Calvinist. In 1894, Weber was appointed the professor of economics at the University of Freiburg after two years he settled the same position at the University of Heidelberg. His research at the time focused mainly on economics and legal history. After Weber’s father died in 1897 he became suffer from depression, anxiety, and sleeplessness, it make difficult to him to fulfill his duties. Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher and political economist who ideas influenced social theory, social research relevant…show more content…
Weber specially use for the term in his historical research. He gave the meaning for verstehen, we will also understand some of the problems involved in his concept as well as the general problems grow out weber methodological thoughts. According to his the understanding motives can be achieved through the verstehen. Value free: The subject matter of sociology is human behavior in society. All social behavior is guided and measure by the values. The study of social behavior can be never value-free because of the every society have social fact it has some value in term of sociology. The researcher always to be value free this means the researcher should be unbiased. Causality: it is also another aspect of weber methodology. He simply meant that his point causality is relevant to the sociology it is combine nomothetic and idiogrphic approaches. Weber was obviously shows in his historical work the relationship Protestantism and the spirit of the capitalism. Marx vs Max…show more content…
Methodological of weber Weber's methodology developed against the background of three different controversies. The first one is the famous Methodenstreit. Its history is quite extensive in all its details. Mainly it is a controversy between history and theory. The second debate in which weber becomes involved is the discussion on the positivist side about the proper demarcation line between natural and cultural sciences. The third debate that helps to define the context of weber’s methodological emergence discussion on value freedom which takes place especially in the same time (peaks in 1911) Weber inspire: His way of developing neo-Kantian methodologies (Rickert's Wertbeziehung) and combining them with marginalist models in constructing his ideal-types allows for inter subjectivity and testability (rationale Evident). Easy to understand the concept formation the Weber's' aspect, choice methodology is an adaptation of secular tools for the newly established sociology in a mode of could be accepted in the German intellectual setting with its historicist hegemony (Eliaeson, 1990) Social
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