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Max Weber
Max Weber (1864–1920) is a German sociologist, historian, and political economist regarded as one of the principal founders of modern social science.
Why it matters
His interpretive method and analyses of authority, rationalization, and religion fundamentally shaped sociology, political science, and the study of modern institutions, and remain essential to social theory today.
What it builds on
Related concepts
- Institutional EconomicshistoricalWeber's analysis of bureaucracy, rationalization, and the relationship between institutions and economic behavior shaped institutional economics
- Social StratificationconceptualWeber's multidimensional stratification theory (class, status, party) offers a more complex alternative to Marx's purely economic class analysis
- Economic HistoryhistoricalWeber's Protestant Ethic thesis connected religious ideas to capitalist development, demonstrating how culture shapes economic history
- Social SciencelogicalMax Weber provides conceptual grounding that helps explain Social Science in this knowledge graph.