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Max Weber

German Sociologist

Major Contributions

1. Social Action

- Meanings and motives

- Subjectivity and Objectivity

Types of social action

a) Action in relation to a goal

b) Action in relation to a value

c) Emotional Actions

d) Traditional Actions

2. Ideal Types

They are to Social sciences what experiments are to physical sciences.

3. Kinds of Authorities

a) Traditional Authority

b) Charismatic Authority

c) Rational Legal Authority

4. Bureaucracy

Sociology of organizations

Functions and Dysfunctions

5. Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism

- Maximum profit and abstinence

- Concept of “Calling”

- New understanding of Work

- Shift from other-worldliness to this worldliness

- Stress on literacy and learning

- Spirit of freedom and inquiry

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