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Max Weber
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Category: History & Society
Born:
April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia [Germany]
Died:
June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany (aged 56)
Notable Works:
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”
Subjects Of Study:
Protestant ethic
capitalism
Calvinism
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Max Weber (born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Prussia [Germany]—died June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany) German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. Weber was the eldest son of Max and Helene Weber. His father was an aspiring liberal politician who soon joined the more compliant, pro-Bismarckian “National-Liberals” and moved the family from Erfurt to Berlin, where he became a member of the Prussian House of Deputies (1868–97) and the Reichstag (1872–84). The elder Weber established himself as a fixture of the Berlin social milieu ...(100 of 2612 words)

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