Max Weber, the Glossary
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.[1]
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347 relations: Academic fencing, Affectional action, Agency (sociology), Alfred Schütz, Alfred Vierkandt, Alfred Weber, Allies of World War I, Anarchism, Ancient Judaism (book), Anthony Giddens, Antipositivism, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, Asceticism, Ascona, August Meitzen, Austrian school of economics, Authority, Axiological neutrality, Émile Durkheim, Übermensch, Bad Urach, Bar association, Bavaria, Benjamin Franklin, Bourgeoisie, Brahmin, Buddhism, Bureaucracy, C. Wright Mills, Capital (economics), Capitalism, Carl Menger, Carl Schmitt, Caste system in India, Charismatic authority, Charlottenburg, Chinese philosophy, Christian socialism, Chronology, Class conflict, Classical antiquity, Cold War, Communism, Comparative history, Conflict theories, Confucianism, Continental philosophy, Corsica, ... Expand index (297 more) »
- Alldeutscher Verband members
- Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Germany
- Economic sociologists
- German academic journal editors
- German philosophers of culture
- German philosophers of history
- German philosophers of science
- German philosophers of technology
- Historical school economists
- National-Social Association politicians
- Organizational theorists
- Sociologists of law
- Sociomusicologists
- Writers from Erfurt
Academic fencing
Academic fencing (akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, and, to a minor extent, in Belgium, Lithuania, and Poland.
See Max Weber and Academic fencing
Affectional action
An affectional action (also known as an affectual, emotional, or affective action) is one of four major types of social action, as defined by Max Weber.
See Max Weber and Affectional action
Agency (sociology)
In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential.
See Max Weber and Agency (sociology)
Alfred Schütz
Alfred Schutz (born Alfred Schütz,; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions.
See Max Weber and Alfred Schütz
Alfred Vierkandt
Alfred Vierkandt (4 June 1867 – 24 April 1953) was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history. Max Weber and Alfred Vierkandt are academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin and German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Alfred Vierkandt
Alfred Weber
Carl David Alfred Weber (30 July 1868 – 2 May 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography. Max Weber and Alfred Weber are academic staff of Heidelberg University, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German Democratic Party politicians, German economists, German sociologists, national-Social Association politicians, people from the Province of Saxony and writers from Erfurt.
See Max Weber and Alfred Weber
Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
See Max Weber and Allies of World War I
Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
Ancient Judaism (book)
Ancient Judaism (Das antike Judentum) is an essay written by the German economist and sociologist Max Weber in the early 20th century.
See Max Weber and Ancient Judaism (book)
Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies.
See Max Weber and Anthony Giddens
Antipositivism
In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism, negativism or antinaturalism) is a theoretical stance which proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the methods of investigation utilized within the natural sciences, and that investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology.
See Max Weber and Antipositivism
Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897 – 29 June 1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, was a German far-right activist, Bavarian nationalist and nobleman.
See Max Weber and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley
Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik
The Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik (English: Archives for Social Science and Social Welfare) was an academic journal for the social sciences in Germany between 1888 and 1933.
See Max Weber and Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles
Article 231, often known as the "War Guilt" clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between the German Empire and the Allied and Associated Powers.
See Max Weber and Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles
Asceticism
Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
Ascona
Ascona Ascona (Scona) is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
August Meitzen
August Meitzen (born 16 December 1822, in Breslau; died 19 January 1910, in Berlin) was a German statistician. Max Weber and August Meitzen are academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin and Heidelberg University alumni.
See Max Weber and August Meitzen
Austrian school of economics
The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest.
See Max Weber and Austrian school of economics
Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group over other people.
Axiological neutrality
The axiological neutrality is a methodological position that the sociologist Max Weber offered in Politics as a Vocation, that aim for the researcher to become aware of his own values during his scientific work, to reduce as much as possible the biases that his own value judgements could cause.
See Max Weber and Axiological neutrality
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist. Max Weber and Émile Durkheim are sociologists of religion.
See Max Weber and Émile Durkheim
Übermensch
The Übermensch ("Overman", "Super-man") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Bad Urach
Bad Urach is a town in the district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Bar association
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence.
See Max Weber and Bar association
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Max Weber and Benjamin Franklin are writers about activism and social change.
See Max Weber and Benjamin Franklin
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.
C. Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.
See Max Weber and C. Wright Mills
Capital (economics)
In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services.
See Max Weber and Capital (economics)
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Carl Menger
Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün (28 February 1840 – 26 February 1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics.
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, geopolitician and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Max Weber and Carl Schmitt are 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German nationalists and German political philosophers.
See Max Weber and Carl Schmitt
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
See Max Weber and Caste system in India
Charismatic authority
In the field of sociology, charismatic authority is a concept of organizational leadership wherein the authority of the leader derives from the personal charisma of the leader.
See Max Weber and Charismatic authority
Charlottenburg
Charlottenburg is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
See Max Weber and Charlottenburg
Chinese philosophy
Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.
See Max Weber and Chinese philosophy
Christian socialism is a religious and political philosophy that blends Christianity and socialism, endorsing socialist economics on the basis of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus.
See Max Weber and Christian socialism
Chronology
Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
Class conflict
In political science, the term class conflict, or class struggle, refers to the political tension and economic antagonism that exist among the social classes of society, because of socioeconomic competition for resources among the social classes, between the rich and the poor.
See Max Weber and Class conflict
Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
See Max Weber and Classical antiquity
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
Comparative history
Comparative history is the comparison of different societies which existed during the same time period or shared similar cultural conditions.
See Max Weber and Comparative history
Conflict theories
Conflict theories are perspectives in political philosophy and sociology which argue that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than agreement, while also emphasizing social psychology, historical materialism, power dynamics, and their roles in creating power structures, social movements, and social arrangements within a society.
See Max Weber and Conflict theories
Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
See Max Weber and Confucianism
Continental philosophy
Continental philosophy is an umbrella term for philosophies prominent in continental Europe.
See Max Weber and Continental philosophy
Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
Cost–benefit analysis
Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives.
See Max Weber and Cost–benefit analysis
Covenant (biblical)
The Hebrew Bible makes reference to a number of covenants (בְּרִיתוֹת) with God (YHWH).
See Max Weber and Covenant (biblical)
Critical theory
A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures.
See Max Weber and Critical theory
Daimon
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
Deep South
The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States.
Democratization
Democratization, or democratisation, is the structural government transition from an authoritarian government to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
See Max Weber and Democratization
Disenchantment
In social science, disenchantment (Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society.
See Max Weber and Disenchantment
Double-entry bookkeeping
Double-entry bookkeeping, also known as double-entry accounting, is a method of bookkeeping that relies on a two-sided accounting entry to maintain financial information.
See Max Weber and Double-entry bookkeeping
Dueling scar
Dueling scars (Schmisse) have been seen as a "badge of honour" since as early as 1825.
See Max Weber and Dueling scar
East Elbia
East Elbia (Ostelbien) was an informal denotation for those parts of the German Reich until World War II that lay east of the river Elbe.
Eastern world
The Eastern world, also known as the East or historically the Orient, is an umbrella term for various cultures or social structures, nations and philosophical systems, which vary depending on the context.
See Max Weber and Eastern world
Economic calculation problem
The economic calculation problem (sometimes abbreviated ECP) is a criticism of using central economic planning as a substitute for market-based allocation of the factors of production.
See Max Weber and Economic calculation problem
Economic history
Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena.
See Max Weber and Economic history
Economic sociology
Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena.
See Max Weber and Economic sociology
Economy and Society
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (1921;; or simply Economy and Society) is a book by political economist and sociologist Max Weber, published posthumously in Germany by his wife Marianne.
See Max Weber and Economy and Society
Edgar Jaffé
Edgar Jaffé (14 May 1866 – 29 April 1921) was a German economist and politician. Max Weber and Edgar Jaffé are academic staff of Heidelberg University and German academic journal editors.
Edward Shils
Edward Albert Shils (1 July 1910 – 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist.
See Max Weber and Edward Shils
Elective Affinities
Elective Affinities (German: Die Wahlverwandtschaften), also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809.
See Max Weber and Elective Affinities
Elijah
Elijah (ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias /eːˈlias/) was a Jewish prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab (9th century BC), according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible.
Else von Richthofen
Else Freiin von Richthofen (October 8, 1874 – December 22, 1973) was among the early female social scientists in Germany.
See Max Weber and Else von Richthofen
Empiricism
In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.
Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia.
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German military officer and politician who contributed significantly to the Nazis' rise to power. Max Weber and Erich Ludendorff are German nationalists.
See Max Weber and Erich Ludendorff
Erich Mühsam
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright.
See Max Weber and Erich Mühsam
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays.
See Max Weber and Ernst Toller
Ernst Troeltsch
Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch are academic staff of Heidelberg University, German Democratic Party politicians, sociologists of religion and university of Göttingen alumni.
See Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch
Ethical monotheism
Ethical monotheism is a form of exclusive monotheism in which God is believed to be the only god as well as the source for one's standards of morality, guiding humanity through ethical principles.
See Max Weber and Ethical monotheism
Eugen Diederichs
Eugen Diederichs (June 22, 1867 – September 10, 1930) was a German publisher born in Löbitz, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Max Weber and Eugen Diederichs are people from the Province of Saxony.
See Max Weber and Eugen Diederichs
The Evangelical Social Congress (Evangelisch-Sozialer Kongress, ESK) was a social-reform movement of German evangelists founded in Whitsuntide in 1890.
See Max Weber and Evangelical Social Congress
Family
Family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship).
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust.
Feminist movement
The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women.
See Max Weber and Feminist movement
Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy.
See Max Weber and Frankfurt School
Free love
Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau (Alemannic: Friburg im Brisgau; Fribourg-en-Brisgau; Freecastle in the Breisgau; mostly called simply Freiburg) is the fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe.
See Max Weber and Freiburg im Breisgau
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
See Max Weber and French Third Republic
Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Ebert (4 February 187128 February 1925) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the first president of Germany from 1919 until his death in office in 1925. Max Weber and Friedrich Ebert are German nationalists.
See Max Weber and Friedrich Ebert
Friedrich Naumann
Friedrich Naumann (25 March 1860 – 24 August 1919) was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. Max Weber and Friedrich Naumann are German Democratic Party politicians and national-Social Association politicians.
See Max Weber and Friedrich Naumann
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German philosophers, critics of work and the work ethic, deaths from pneumonia in Germany, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, people from the Province of Saxony and writers about activism and social change.
See Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social relationships into two types.
See Max Weber and Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Georg Jellinek
Georg Jellinek (16 June 1851 – 12 January 1911) was a German public lawyer and was considered to be "the exponent of public law in Austria“. Max Weber and Georg Jellinek are 19th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German philosophers and German political philosophers.
See Max Weber and Georg Jellinek
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Max Weber and Georg Simmel are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German writers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, German sociologists and sociologists of religion.
See Max Weber and Georg Simmel
German Democratic Party
The German Democratic Party (DDP) was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist or centre-left.
See Max Weber and German Democratic Party
German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
See Max Weber and German Empire
German idealism
German idealism is a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
See Max Weber and German idealism
German invasion of Belgium (1914)
The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on 4 August 1914.
See Max Weber and German invasion of Belgium (1914)
German National People's Party
The German National People's Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) was a national-conservative and monarchist political party in Germany during the Weimar Republic.
See Max Weber and German National People's Party
German revolution of 1918–1919
The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. It quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire, then in its more violent second stage, the supporters of a parliamentary republic were victorious over those who wanted a soviet-style council republic.
See Max Weber and German revolution of 1918–1919
German Sociological Association
The German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS) is a professional organization of social scientists in Germany.
See Max Weber and German Sociological Association
Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions
After partitioning Poland at the end of the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting the Polish ethnic presence and culture in these areas.
See Max Weber and Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions
Great power
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.
Guenther Roth
Guenther Roth (German spelling Günther Roth; 12 January 1931 – 18 May 2019) was a German-American sociologist. Max Weber and Guenther Roth are German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Guenther Roth
Gustav von Schmoller
Gustav Friedrich (after 1908: von) Schmoller (24 June 1838 – 27 June 1917) was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics. Max Weber and Gustav von Schmoller are 19th-century German male writers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin and historical school economists.
See Max Weber and Gustav von Schmoller
György Lukács
György Lukács (born György Bernát Löwinger; szegedi Lukács György Bernát; Georg Bernard Baron Lukács von Szegedin; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician.
See Max Weber and György Lukács
Hans Freyer
Hans Freyer (31 July 1887 – 18 January 1969) was a German conservative revolutionary sociologist and philosopher. Max Weber and Hans Freyer are 20th-century German philosophers and German sociologists.
Hans Henrik Bruun
Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun (born 1943) is a Danish sociologist and diplomat.
See Max Weber and Hans Henrik Bruun
Hans Morgenthau
Hans Joachim Morgenthau (February 17, 1904 – July 19, 1980) was a German-American jurist and political scientist who was one of the major 20th-century figures in the study of international relations.
See Max Weber and Hans Morgenthau
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
See Max Weber and Heidelberg University
Heinrich Rickert
Heinrich John Rickert (25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians. Max Weber and Heinrich Rickert are 19th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of Heidelberg University, academic staff of the University of Freiburg, continental philosophers, German philosophers of history, German philosophers of science and university of Strasbourg alumni.
See Max Weber and Heinrich Rickert
Hermann Baumgarten
Hermann Baumgarten (28 April 1825 – 19 June 1893) was a German historian and a political publicist whose work had a major impact on liberalism during the unification of Germany. Max Weber and Hermann Baumgarten are 19th-century German male writers and 19th-century German writers.
See Max Weber and Hermann Baumgarten
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. Max Weber and Hermann von Helmholtz are academic staff of Heidelberg University and academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
See Max Weber and Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
See Max Weber and Hermeneutics
Heterodoxy
In religion, heterodoxy (from Ancient Greek:, "other, another, different" +, "popular belief") means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position".
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Historical school of economics
The historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics and to public administration that emerged in the 19th century in Germany, and held sway there until well into the 20th century.
See Max Weber and Historical school of economics
Historicism
Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying the process or history by which they came about.
History of Germany during World War I
During World War I, the German Empire was one of the Central Powers.
See Max Weber and History of Germany during World War I
Huguenots
The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
See Max Weber and Humboldt University of Berlin
Ideal type
Ideal type (Idealtypus), also known as pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with the sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920).
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Max Weber and Immanuel Kant are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German philosophers, German nationalists, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, German philosophers of science, German political philosophers and writers about activism and social change.
See Max Weber and Immanuel Kant
Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
See Max Weber and Individualism
Information and communications technology
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and manipulate information.
See Max Weber and Information and communications technology
Inner-worldly asceticism
Inner-worldly asceticism was characterized by Max Weber in Economy and Society as the concentration of human behavior upon activities leading to salvation within the context of the everyday world.
See Max Weber and Inner-worldly asceticism
Insomnia
Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping.
Instrumental and value-rational action
"Instrumental" and "value-rational action" are terms scholars use to identify two kinds of behavior that humans can engage in.
See Max Weber and Instrumental and value-rational action
Interpretations of Max Weber's liberalism
There are varying interpretations of Max Weber's liberalism due to his well-known sociological achievements.
See Max Weber and Interpretations of Max Weber's liberalism
Iron cage
In sociology, the iron cage is a concept introduced by Max Weber to describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies.
Israelites
The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas are 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of Heidelberg University, German philosophers of science, German philosophers of technology, German political philosophers, German sociologists and university of Göttingen alumni.
See Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. Max Weber and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German philosophers, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, German philosophers of science, German political philosophers, members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, university of Strasbourg alumni and writers about activism and social change.
See Max Weber and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Rex
John Rex (5 March 1925 – 18 December 2011) was a South African-born British sociologist.
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian political economist.
See Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter
Junker (Prussia)
The Junkers were members of the landed nobility in Prussia.
See Max Weber and Junker (Prussia)
Jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law.
Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium
The Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium was a German school based in Charlottenburg, a locality of Berlin.
See Max Weber and Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium
Kantian ethics
Kantian ethics refers to a deontological ethical theory developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant that is based on the notion that "I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.” It is also associated with the idea that “t is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will." The theory was developed in the context of Enlightenment rationalism.
See Max Weber and Kantian ethics
Karl Löwith
Karl Löwith (9 January 1897 – 26 May 1973) was a German philosopher in the phenomenological tradition. Max Weber and Karl Löwith are 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of Heidelberg University and German philosophers of history.
Karl Liebknecht
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist and anti-militarist.
See Max Weber and Karl Liebknecht
Karl Loewenstein
Karl Loewenstein (November 9, 1891 in Munich – July 10, 1973 in Heidelberg) was a German lawyer and political scientist, regarded as one of the prominent figures of Constitutional law in the twentieth century. Max Weber and Karl Loewenstein are 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, German Democratic Party politicians and Heidelberg University alumni.
See Max Weber and Karl Loewenstein
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Max Weber and Karl Marx are 19th-century German philosophers, critics of work and the work ethic, economic historians, German political philosophers, German sociologists, philosophers of economics and writers about activism and social change.
Kingdom of Bavaria
The Kingdom of Bavaria (Königreich Bayern;; spelled Baiern until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1806 and continued to exist until 1918.
See Max Weber and Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
See Max Weber and Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.
See Max Weber and Kingdom of Prussia
Kings of Israel and Judah
The article deals with the biblical and historical kings of the Land of Israel - Abimelech of Sichem, the three kings of the United Kingdom of Israel and those of its successor states, Israel and Judah, followed in the Second Temple period, part of classical antiquity, by the kingdoms ruled by the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties.
See Max Weber and Kings of Israel and Judah
Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
Kulak
Kulak (a; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul or golchomag (plural), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.
Kurt Eisner
Kurt Eisner (14 May 1867 21 February 1919)"Kurt Eisner – Encyclopædia Britannica" (biography), Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006, Britannica.com webpage:.
Landtag of Prussia
The Landtag of Prussia (Preußischer Landtag) was the representative assembly of the Kingdom of Prussia implemented in 1849, a bicameral legislature consisting of the upper House of Lords (Herrenhaus) and the lower House of Representatives (Abgeordnetenhaus).
See Max Weber and Landtag of Prussia
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. Max Weber and Leo Strauss are 20th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German writers and continental philosophers.
Leopold von Wiese
Leopold Max Walther von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau (2 December 1876, Glatz, German Empire – 11 January 1969, Cologne, West Germany) was a German sociologist and economist, as well as professor and chairman of the German Sociological Association. Max Weber and Leopold von Wiese are 20th-century German writers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin and German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Leopold von Wiese
Levin Goldschmidt
Levin Goldschmidt (30 May 1829 – 16 July 1897) was a German jurist, judge and academic.
See Max Weber and Levin Goldschmidt
Liberal democracy
Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a representative democracy with ideas of liberal political philosophy.
See Max Weber and Liberal democracy
Life chances
Life chances (Lebenschancen in German) is a theory in sociology which refers to the opportunities each individual has to improve their quality of life.
See Max Weber and Life chances
List of ministers-president of Bavaria
Below is a list of the men who have served in the capacity of Minister-President or equivalent office in the German state of Bavaria from the 17th century to the present.
See Max Weber and List of ministers-president of Bavaria
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St.
See Max Weber and Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
See Max Weber and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian–American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist.
See Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises
Lujo Brentano
Lujo Brentano (18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was an eminent German economist and social reformer. Max Weber and Lujo Brentano are academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, academic staff of the University of Vienna, German economists, Heidelberg University alumni and university of Göttingen alumni.
See Max Weber and Lujo Brentano
M. Rainer Lepsius
M. Max Weber and M. Rainer Lepsius are academic staff of Heidelberg University, academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, German sociologists and members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
See Max Weber and M. Rainer Lepsius
Marginal utility
In economics, marginal utility describes the change in utility (pleasure or satisfaction resulting from the consumption) of one unit of a good or service.
See Max Weber and Marginal utility
Marianne Weber
Marianne Weber (born Marianne Schnitger; 2 August 1870 – 12 March 1954) was a German sociologist, women's rights activist and the wife of Max Weber. Max Weber and Marianne Weber are German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Marianne Weber
Marx's theory of alienation
Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
See Max Weber and Marx's theory of alienation
Master–slave morality
Master–slave morality (Herren- und Sklavenmoral) is a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, particularly in the first essay of his book On the Genealogy of Morality.
See Max Weber and Master–slave morality
Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Max Weber and Max Horkheimer are 20th-century German philosophers, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, German political philosophers, German sociologists and philosophers of economics.
See Max Weber and Max Horkheimer
Max Maurenbrecher
Max Heinrich Maurenbrecher (17 July 1874 – 30 April 1929) was a German publicist, pastor and politician. Max Weber and Max Maurenbrecher are Alldeutscher Verband members and national-Social Association politicians.
See Max Weber and Max Maurenbrecher
Max Weber bibliography
This is a chronological list of works by Max Weber.
See Max Weber and Max Weber bibliography
Max Weber Sr.
Max Weber (May 31, 1836 – August 10, 1897) was a German lawyer, municipal official and National Liberal politician. Max Weber and Max Weber Sr. are university of Göttingen alumni.
See Max Weber and Max Weber Sr.
Meaning-making
In psychology, meaning-making is the process of how people construe, understand, or make sense of life events, relationships, and the self.
See Max Weber and Meaning-making
Methodenstreit
Methodenstreit (German for "method dispute"), in intellectual history beyond German-language discourse, was an economics controversy commenced in the 1880s and persisting for more than a decade, between that field's Austrian School and the (German) Historical School.
See Max Weber and Methodenstreit
Methodological individualism
In the social sciences, methodological individualism is a framework that describes social phenomena as a consequence of subjective personal motivations by individual actors.
See Max Weber and Methodological individualism
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Military reserve force
A military reserve force is a military organization whose members (reservists) have military and civilian occupations.
See Max Weber and Military reserve force
Modernity
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Mohr Siebeck
Mohr Siebeck Verlag is a long-established academic publisher focused on the humanities and social sciences and based in Tübingen, Germany.
See Max Weber and Mohr Siebeck
Monopoly on violence
In political philosophy, a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force, and thus the supreme authority of that area.
See Max Weber and Monopoly on violence
Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.
Monte Verità
Monte Verità (Italian; German 'Berg Wahrheit', meaning "Mount Truth" or "Mountain of Truth") is a 321 metres above sea level high hill and a cultural-historical ensemble in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
See Max Weber and Monte Verità
Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Mysticism
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.
National Liberal Party (Germany)
The National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei, NLP) was a liberal party of the North German Confederation and the German Empire which flourished between 1867 and 1918.
See Max Weber and National Liberal Party (Germany)
The National-Social Association (Nationalsozialer Verein, NSV) was a political party in the German Empire, founded in 1896 by Friedrich Naumann.
See Max Weber and National-Social Association
Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
Natural law
Natural law (ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by natural law's proponents to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or society).
Natural science
Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.
See Max Weber and Natural science
Naturism
Naturism is a lifestyle of practicing non-sexual social nudity in private and in public; the word also refers to the cultural movement which advocates and defends that lifestyle.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
See Max Weber and Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Near East
The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, specifically the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace, and Egypt.
Neo-Kantianism
In late modern continental philosophy, neo-Kantianism (Neukantianismus) was a revival of the 18th-century philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
See Max Weber and Neo-Kantianism
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New Town Hall (Munich)
The New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) is a town hall that forms the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
See Max Weber and New Town Hall (Munich)
Nihilism
Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
See Max Weber and North Carolina
Oberste Heeresleitung
The Oberste Heeresleitung ("Supreme Army Command", OHL) was the highest echelon of command of the army (Heer) of the German Empire.
See Max Weber and Oberste Heeresleitung
Obshchina
Obshchina (p, literally "commune") or mir (мир, literally "society", among other meanings), or selskoye obshchestvo (сельское общество, literally "rural community", official term in the 19th and 20th century; sil's'ke tovarystvo, сільське товариство, literally "rural community"), were peasant village communities as opposed to individual farmsteads, or khutors, in Imperial Russia.
Odenwaldschule
The Odenwaldschule was a German school located in Heppenheim in the Odenwald.
See Max Weber and Odenwaldschule
Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.
See Max Weber and Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament
Omnibenevolence
Omnibenevolence is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "unlimited or infinite benevolence".
See Max Weber and Omnibenevolence
Omnipotence
Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power.
Organized religion
Organized religion, also known as institutional religion, is religion in which belief systems and rituals are systematically arranged and formally established, typically by an official doctrine (or dogma), a hierarchical or bureaucratic leadership structure, and a codification of proper and improper behavior.
See Max Weber and Organized religion
Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy (from Greek) is adherence to correct or accepted creeds, especially in religion.
Ostflucht
The Ostflucht ("flight from the East") was the migration of Germans, in the later 19th century and early 20th century, from areas which were then eastern parts of Germany to more industrialized regions in central and western Germany.
Ostfriedhof (Munich)
The Ostfriedhof (Eastern Cemetery) is a cemetery in Munich, situated in the district of Obergiesing, established in 1821 and still in use.
See Max Weber and Ostfriedhof (Munich)
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history. Max Weber and Oswald Spengler are 20th-century German philosophers, continental philosophers, German nationalists, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of history, German philosophers of science, German philosophers of technology, German political philosophers, German sociologists and writers about activism and social change.
See Max Weber and Oswald Spengler
Othmar Spann
Othmar Spann (1 October 1878 – 8 July 1950) was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist.
See Max Weber and Othmar Spann
Otto Neurath
Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath (10 December 1882 – 22 December 1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist.
See Max Weber and Otto Neurath
Otto von Bismarck
Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898; born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck) was a Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany. Max Weber and Otto von Bismarck are German nationalists, people from the Province of Saxony and university of Göttingen alumni.
See Max Weber and Otto von Bismarck
Pacifism in Germany
The existence of pacifism in Germany has changed over time, with the consistent feature of having diverse groups with a shared belief in an opposition to participating in war.
See Max Weber and Pacifism in Germany
Pan-German League
The Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband) was a Pan-German nationalist organization which was officially founded in 1891, a year after the Zanzibar Treaty was signed.
See Max Weber and Pan-German League
Pantheism
Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.
Patrimonialism
Patrimonialism is a form of governance in which all power flows directly from the ruler.
See Max Weber and Patrimonialism
Paul Geheeb
Paul Geheeb (1870–1961) was a German pedagogue in the German rural boarding school movement known for co-founding the boarding schools Wickersdorf Free School Community, Odenwaldschule, and Ecole d'Humanité.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".
See Max Weber and Philanthropy
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century.
See Max Weber and Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy of history
Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline.
See Max Weber and Philosophy of history
Piety
Piety is a virtue which may include religious devotion or spirituality.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.
Political economy
Political economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government).
See Max Weber and Political economy
Political sociology
Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis.
See Max Weber and Political sociology
Politics as a Vocation
"Politics as a Vocation" (Politik als Beruf) is an essay by German economist and sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920).
See Max Weber and Politics as a Vocation
Polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.
Predestination
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.
See Max Weber and Predestination
President of Germany (1919–1945)
The President of the Reich (Reichspräsident) was the German head of state under the Weimar constitution, which was officially in force from 1919 to 1945.
See Max Weber and President of Germany (1919–1945)
Price
A price is the (usually not negative) quantity of payment or compensation expected, required, or given by one party to another in return for goods or services.
Privatdozent
Privatdozent (for men) or Privatdozentin (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualifications that denote an ability (facultas docendi) and permission to teach (venia legendi) a designated subject at the highest level.
See Max Weber and Privatdozent
Private property
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.
See Max Weber and Private property
Professionalization
Professionalization or professionalisation is a social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true "profession of the highest integrity and competence." The definition of what constitutes a profession is often contested.
See Max Weber and Professionalization
Prophecy
In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.
Prophet
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
Protestant work ethic
The Protestant work ethic, also known as the Calvinist work ethic or the Puritan work ethic, is a work ethic concept in sociology, economics, and history.
See Max Weber and Protestant work ethic
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
See Max Weber and Protestantism
Province of Saxony
The Province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony (Preußisches Sachsen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944.
See Max Weber and Province of Saxony
Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Psychophysics
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce.
See Max Weber and Psychophysics
Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf are German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf
Rational-legal authority
Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy and bureaucracy.
See Max Weber and Rational-legal authority
Rationalization (sociology)
In sociology, the term rationalization was coined by Max Weber, a German sociologist, jurist, and economist.
See Max Weber and Rationalization (sociology)
Raymond Aron
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Max Weber and Raymond Aron are continental philosophers.
See Max Weber and Raymond Aron
Referendary
Referendary is the English form of a number of administrative positions, of various rank, in chanceries and other official organizations in Europe.
Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
See Max Weber and Reformed Christianity
Reichstag (German Empire)
The Reichstag of the German Empire was Germany's lower House of Parliament from 1871 to 1918.
See Max Weber and Reichstag (German Empire)
Reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
See Max Weber and Reincarnation
Reinhard Bendix
Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a German-American sociologist. Max Weber and Reinhard Bendix are German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Reinhard Bendix
Religion in China
Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk religion.
See Max Weber and Religion in China
Religion in politics
Religion in politics covers various topics related to the effects of religion on politics.
See Max Weber and Religion in politics
Religiosity
The Oxford English Dictionary defines religiosity as: "Religiousness; religious feeling or belief.
Ressentiment
In philosophy, ressentiment is one of the forms of resentment or hostility.
See Max Weber and Ressentiment
Robert Michels
Robert Michels (9 January 1876 – 3 May 1936) was a German-born Italian sociologist who contributed to elite theory by describing the political behavior of intellectual elites. Max Weber and Robert Michels are German sociologists.
See Max Weber and Robert Michels
Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law
Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law (original German: Die römische Agrargeschichte in ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht) was the habilitation thesis, in law at the University of Berlin in 1891, of Max Weber, who went on to become a renowned sociologist.
See Max Weber and Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law
Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (Róża Luksemburg,;; born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. Max Weber and Rosa Luxemburg are 19th-century German philosophers, 19th-century German writers and 20th-century German philosophers.
See Max Weber and Rosa Luxemburg
Rudolf von Gneist
Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist (13 August 1816 – 22 July 1895) was a German jurist and politician. Max Weber and Rudolf von Gneist are academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
See Max Weber and Rudolf von Gneist
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
See Max Weber and Russian Empire
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
See Max Weber and Russian language
Russian Revolution of 1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, began on 22 January 1905.
See Max Weber and Russian Revolution of 1905
Sadomasochism
Sadism and masochism, known collectively as sadomasochism, are the derivation of pleasure from acts of respectively inflicting or receiving pain or humiliation.
See Max Weber and Sadomasochism
Salon (gathering)
A salon is a gathering of people held by a host.
See Max Weber and Salon (gathering)
Salvation
Salvation (from Latin: salvatio, from salva, 'safe, saved') is the state of being saved or protected from harm or a dire situation.
Sanatorium
A sanatorium (from Latin sānāre 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
Science as a Vocation
Science as a Vocation (German: Wissenschaft als Beruf) is the text of a lecture given in 1917 at Munich University by German sociologist and political economist Max Weber.
See Max Weber and Science as a Vocation
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
See Max Weber and Second Polish Republic
Secularization
In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is a multilayered concept that generally denotes "a transition from a religious to a more worldly level." There are many types of secularization and most do not lead to atheism, irreligion, nor are they automatically antithetical to religion.
See Max Weber and Secularization
Septemberprogramm
The Septemberprogramm (literally "September Program") was a memorandum authorized by Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I (1914–18).
See Max Weber and Septemberprogramm
In sociology, social action, also known as Weberian social action, is an act which takes into account the actions and reactions of individuals (or 'agents').
See Max Weber and Social action
Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other.
See Max Weber and Social behavior
Social Darwinism is the study and implementation of various pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics.
See Max Weber and Social Darwinism
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.
See Max Weber and Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social philosophy examines questions about the foundations of social institutions, behavior, power structures, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations.
See Max Weber and Social philosophy
Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize social policy and public policy to be two separate, competing approaches for the same public interest (similar to MD and DO in healthcare), with social policy deemed more holistic than public policy.
See Max Weber and Social policy
The term social question refers to the social grievances that accompanied the Industrial Revolution and the following population explosion, that is, the social problems accompanying and resulting from the transition from an agrarian to an urbanising industrial society.
See Max Weber and Social question
Social research is research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan.
See Max Weber and Social research
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
See Max Weber and Social science
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.
See Max Weber and Social status
Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).
See Max Weber and Social stratification
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.
See Max Weber and Social theory
Sociocultural evolution
Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies and culture change over time.
See Max Weber and Sociocultural evolution
Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
Sociology of law
The sociology of law, legal sociology, or law and society is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies.
See Max Weber and Sociology of law
Sociology of religion
Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.
See Max Weber and Sociology of religion
Sociology of Religion (book)
Sociology of Religion is a 1920 book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
See Max Weber and Sociology of Religion (book)
Solomon
Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.
Soul
In many religious and philosophical traditions, the soul is the non-material essence of a person, which includes one's identity, personality, and memories, an immaterial aspect or essence of a living being that is believed to be able to survive physical death.
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Spartacus League
The Spartacus League was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war.
See Max Weber and Spartacus League
Speeches of Max Weber
Max Weber influenced German society and politics in the late 1910s.
See Max Weber and Speeches of Max Weber
St. Louis
St.
State (polity)
A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.
See Max Weber and State (polity)
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Structural functionalism
Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".
See Max Weber and Structural functionalism
Structure and agency
In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behaviour.
See Max Weber and Structure and agency
Studentenverbindung
Studentenverbindung or studentische Korporation (often referred to as Verbindung) is the umbrella term for many different kinds of fraternity-type associations in German-speaking countries, including Corps, Burschenschaften, Landsmannschaften, Turnerschaften, and Catholic fraternities.
See Max Weber and Studentenverbindung
Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
See Max Weber and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Max Weber and Talcott Parsons are sociologists of law.
See Max Weber and Talcott Parsons
Taoism
Taoism or Daoism is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao—generally understood as an impersonal, enigmatic process of transformation ultimately underlying reality.
Textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing.
See Max Weber and Textile industry
The British Journal of Sociology
The British Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics.
See Max Weber and The British Journal of Sociology
The City (Weber book)
The City is a book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
See Max Weber and The City (Weber book)
The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes; more literally, The Downfall of the Occident) is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler.
See Max Weber and The Decline of the West
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus) is a book written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist, and politician.
See Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Religion of China
The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism is a book written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
See Max Weber and The Religion of China
The Religion of India
The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism is a book on the sociology of religion written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist of the early twentieth century.
See Max Weber and The Religion of India
The Structure of Social Action is a 1937 book by sociologist Talcott Parsons.
See Max Weber and The Structure of Social Action
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss (31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. Max Weber and Theodor Heuss are German Democratic Party politicians and national-Social Association politicians.
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Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. Max Weber and Theodor Mommsen are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German writers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German nationalists and members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno are 20th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German writers, German philosophers of culture, German sociologists and Sociomusicologists.
See Max Weber and Theodor W. Adorno
Theory of imputation
The theory of imputation is based on the so-called theory of factors of production proposed by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say and elaborated by the American economist John Bates Clark in his work The Distribution of Wealth (1899; Russian translation, 1934).
See Max Weber and Theory of imputation
Three-component theory of stratification
The three-component theory of stratification, more widely known as Weberian stratification or the three class system, was developed by German sociologist Max Weber with class, status and party as distinct ideal types.
See Max Weber and Three-component theory of stratification
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen), also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche; it was published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885.
See Max Weber and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Traditional authority
Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom.
See Max Weber and Traditional authority
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.
See Max Weber and Treaty of Versailles
Tripartite classification of authority
Max Weber distinguished three ideal types of legitimate political leadership, domination and authority.
See Max Weber and Tripartite classification of authority
Ultimate end
The ethic of ultimate end, moral conviction, or conviction is a concept in the moral philosophy of Max Weber, in which individuals act in a faithful, rather than rational, manner.
See Max Weber and Ultimate end
Universal suffrage
Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.
See Max Weber and Universal suffrage
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
See Max Weber and University of Freiburg
University of Göttingen
The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta) is a distinguished public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.
See Max Weber and University of Göttingen
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg (Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.
See Max Weber and University of Strasbourg
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria.
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Unrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning.
See Max Weber and Unrestricted submarine warfare
The italic (literally: Association for Social Policy), or the German Economic Association, is an important society of economists in the German-speaking area.
See Max Weber and Verein für Socialpolitik
Verstehen
Verstehen, in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century – in English as in German – with the particular sense of the "interpretive or participatory" examination of social phenomena.
Vocation
A vocation is an occupation to which a person is especially drawn or for which they are suited, trained or qualified.
Weber–Fechner law
The Weber–Fechner laws are two related scientific laws in the field of psychophysics, known as Weber's law and Fechner's law.
See Max Weber and Weber–Fechner law
Weimar Constitution
The Constitution of the German Reich (Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs), usually known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung), was the constitution that governed Germany during the Weimar Republic era (1919–1933).
See Max Weber and Weimar Constitution
Weimar National Assembly
The Weimar National Assembly (German), officially the German National Constitutional Assembly, was the popularly elected constitutional convention and de facto parliament of Germany from 6 February 1919 to 21 May 1920.
See Max Weber and Weimar National Assembly
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
See Max Weber and Weimar Republic
Werner Sombart
Werner Sombart (19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist, historian and sociologist. Max Weber and Werner Sombart are academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German academic journal editors, German economists, German nationalists, German sociologists, historical school economists and people from the Province of Saxony.
See Max Weber and Werner Sombart
Werturteilsstreit
The value judgment controversy (German:Werturteilsstreit) is a Methodenstreit, a quarrel in German sociology and economics, around the question whether the social sciences are a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether their measures can be justified scientifically.
See Max Weber and Werturteilsstreit
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
See Max Weber and Western culture
Western esotericism
Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society.
See Max Weber and Western esotericism
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
See Max Weber and Western world
Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey (19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. Max Weber and Wilhelm Dilthey are 19th-century German male writers, 19th-century German philosophers, 20th-century German philosophers, academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin, German philosophers of culture, German philosophers of science, German political philosophers, German sociologists and Heidelberg University alumni.
See Max Weber and Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelminism
The Wilhelmine Period or Wilhelmian era comprises the period of German history between 1890 and 1918, embracing the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the German Empire from the resignation of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck until the end of World War I and Wilhelm's abdication during the November Revolution.
See Max Weber and Wilhelminism
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaftsgeschichte (General Economic History in English) (1923 translation 1927) is a book of economic theory which was composed by Max Weber's students based on notes from his lectures.
See Max Weber and Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wolfgang Mommsen
Wolfgang Justin Mommsen (5 November 1930 – 11 August 2004) was a German historian.
See Max Weber and Wolfgang Mommsen
Wolfgang Schluchter
Wolfgang Schluchter (born 4 April 1938 in Ludwigsburg, Germany) is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University. Max Weber and Wolfgang Schluchter are academic staff of Heidelberg University and German sociologists.
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World religions
World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate at least five—and in some cases more—religions that are deemed to have been especially large, internationally widespread, or influential in the development of Western society.
See Max Weber and World religions
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See Max Weber and World War II
Yahweh
Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions.
Zeno.org
Zeno.org is a digital library with German texts and other content such as pictures, facsimile, etc., which has been started by the Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, a German publishing house and sister enterprise of Directmedia Publishing GmbH.
Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter
Zur Geschichte der Handelgesellschaften im Mittelalter is a doctoral dissertation written in 1889 by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
See Max Weber and Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter
1903 German federal election
Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1903.
See Max Weber and 1903 German federal election
See also
Alldeutscher Verband members
- Adolf Eugen Fick
- Alfred Hugenberg
- Artur Dinter
- August Keim
- Carl Peters
- Emil Kirdorf
- Ernst Haeckel
- Ernst Pöhner
- Franz von Lenbach
- Gustaf Kossinna
- Heinrich Claß
- Hermann Boehm (eugenicist)
- Johannes Wislicenus
- Julius Friedrich Lehmann
- Karl Lamprecht
- Max Maurenbrecher
- Max Weber
- Max von Gruber
- Otto Ammon
- Otto Frickhoeffer
- Otto Hoetzsch
- Otto Lubarsch
- Otto von Feldmann
Deaths from the Spanish flu pandemic in Germany
- Bevil Quiller-Couch
- Bill Williamson (footballer)
- Carl Hermann Busse
- Franz Metzner
- Georg Bötticher
- Georg Klebs
- Gilda Langer
- Hedwig Lachmann
- Martin Krause
- Max Weber
Economic sociologists
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Arthur Stinchcombe
- Brooke Harrington
- Costin Murgescu
- Donald Angus MacKenzie
- Edward Alsworth Ross
- Francis Fukuyama
- Fred L. Block
- Herbert Spencer
- James Samuel Coleman
- Koray Caliskan
- Leslie McCall
- Lindsay Owens
- Lisa Adkins
- Margunn Bjørnholt
- Max Weber
- Nigel Dodd
- Nina Bandelj
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Pim Fortuyn
- Radu Rosetti
- Rudolf Goldscheid
- Slavo Kukić
- Thorstein Veblen
- Traian Herseni
- Vili Lehdonvirta
- Wolfgang Streeck
German academic journal editors
- Alexandra Flemming
- Christoph Schwöbel
- Edgar Jaffé
- Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog
- Ewald Wollny
- Friedrich Karl Schmidt
- Friedrich Vogel (human geneticist)
- Gerhard Meisenberg
- Helmut Wielandt
- Ingetraut Dahlberg
- Joachim Grzega
- Jochem Kahl
- Karl Gustav Fellerer
- Karl Ulrich Mayer
- Kurt Goldstein
- Matthias Gross
- Max Weber
- Nico Eisenhauer
- Otto Hofmann
- Otto Holzapfel
- Rainer K. Silbereisen
- Rainer W. Bussmann
- Sabine Hark
- Sabine Klamroth
- Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
- Stefan Schuster
- Thilo C. Schadeberg
- Thomas Schick
- Walter Leitner
- Werner Sombart
- Wilhelm Böckmann
- Wolfgang Glänzel
German philosophers of culture
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Axel Honneth
- Barbara Schellhammer
- Eduard Zeller
- Friedrich Engels
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Schiller
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Georg Simmel
- Georg Stenger
- Hans Albert
- Heinrich Rombach
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Ludwig Klages
- Markus Gabriel
- Martin Heidegger
- Max Horkheimer
- Max Scheler
- Max Weber
- Moritz Brasch
- Oswald Spengler
- Robert Kurz
- Rudolf Otto
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Theodor Lipps
- Theodor Litt
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Walter Benjamin
- Wilhelm Dilthey
German philosophers of history
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Axel Honneth
- Ernst Christian Gottlieb Reinhold
- Eugen Fink
- Friedrich August Carus
- Friedrich Engels
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
- Georg Simmel
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hans Albert
- Heinrich Rickert
- Immanuel Kant
- Joachim Ritter
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Julius Bahnsen
- Karl Bormann
- Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
- Karl Löwith
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Ludwig Klages
- Martin Heidegger
- Max Horkheimer
- Max Stirner
- Max Weber
- Moritz Brasch
- Oswald Spengler
- Paul Barth (sociologist)
- Paul Yorck von Wartenburg
- Robert Kurz
- Rudolf Otto
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Walter Benjamin
German philosophers of science
- Alexander Fidora
- Alexander Moszkowski
- Arno Ros
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Friedrich Kambartel
- Gernot Böhme
- Gottlob Frege
- Grete Hermann
- Hannes Leitgeb
- Hans Albert
- Heinrich Rickert
- Hugo Dingler
- Immanuel Kant
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jürgen Mittelstraß
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Kurt Riezler
- Ludwig Büchner
- Markus Gabriel
- Max Bense
- Max Bernhard Weinstein
- Max Weber
- Moritz Schlick
- Oswald Spengler
- Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- Paul Oppenheim
- Paul Rée
- Theodor Caroli
- Ursula Klein
- Walter Dubislav
- Werner Heisenberg
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Yiftach Fehige
German philosophers of technology
- Arnold Gehlen
- Bernward Joerges
- Byung-Chul Han
- Claus Pias
- Friedrich Dessauer
- Günter Ropohl
- Hans Jonas
- Herbert Marcuse
- Hito Steyerl
- Jürgen Habermas
- Ludwig Büchner
- Markus Gabriel
- Martin Heidegger
- Max Bense
- Max Weber
- Nicole C. Karafyllis
- Niklas Luhmann
- Norbert Bolz
- Oswald Spengler
- Peter Sloterdijk
- Peter Trawny
- Siegfried Kracauer
- Ulrich Beck
- Walter Benjamin
- Wolfgang Ernst (media theorist)
- Wolfgang Schadewaldt
Historical school economists
- Étienne Laspeyres
- Adolph Wagner
- Bruno Hildebrand
- Friedrich List
- Georg Friedrich Knapp
- Gustav von Schmoller
- Karl Bücher
- Karl Knies
- Karl Polanyi
- Max Weber
- Werner Sombart
- Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
- Adolf Damaschke
- Alfred Weber
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Friedrich Naumann
- Gustav Adolf Deissmann
- Gustav Frenssen
- Gustav Stresemann
- Heinrich Gelzer
- Hellmut von Gerlach
- Johannes Weiss
- Karl Rathgen
- Ludwig Curtius
- Max Maurenbrecher
- Max Weber
- Otto Nuschke
- Paul Rohrbach
- Rudolf Breitscheid
- Theodor Heuss
- Wilhelm Bousset
- Wilhelm Rein
Organizational theorists
- Christina Garsten
- Claudio Ciborra
- Elton Mayo
- Max Weber
- Niklas Luhmann
- Stafford Beer
- Steffen Roth
- Tine Köhler
- Ulbo de Sitter (sociologist)
Sociologists of law
- Adam Podgórecki
- Andrew Arato
- Arthur Stinchcombe
- Carol Smart
- Carroll Seron
- Christopher J. Schneider
- Erhard Blankenburg
- Eugen Ehrlich
- Jawahir Thontowi
- John Eekelaar
- Leon Petrażycki
- Margunn Bjørnholt
- Mavis Maclean
- Max Weber
- Mona Lynch
- Nükhet Sirman
- Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen
- Niklas Luhmann
- Pat Lauderdale
- Puma Shen
- Renato Treves
- Sally Engle Merry
- Talcott Parsons
- Vilhelm Aubert
Sociomusicologists
- Alphons Silbermann
- Charles Seeger
- Christopher Small
- David G. Hebert
- Georgina Born
- Howard S. Becker
- Jacques Attali
- Maurice Halbwachs
- Max Weber
- Simon Frith
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Tia DeNora
Writers from Erfurt
- Alfred Weber
- Annemarie Schimmel
- David Baumgardt
- Gerd Nauhaus
- Heinrich August Erhard
- Heinrich Hübschmann
- Hilde Purwin
- Hiob Ludolf
- Joachim Werneburg
- Johann Joachim Bellermann
- Johann Michael Vansleb
- Johannes Wallmann (theologian)
- Johannes de Indagine
- Julius Grosse
- Justus Friedrich Kritz
- Max Weber
- Oskar Schade
- Otto Ribbeck
- Reinhard Lettau
- Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann
- Sophie Albrecht
- Walter Rein
- Walter Zander
- Werner Danckert
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann
- Wolf Schneider
References
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