Can anyone give me some short precise facts on MAX WEBER?
– German academic. – Developed the three sources of legitimacy: traditional, legal-rational and charismatic. – Wrote about the role of the politician, whether they were in politics as a profession or for public service. – Wrote about the need to avoid value judgements in social research. The idea that facts can be spun whichever way a person likes, but students should simply be taught the facts not the interpretation which they should form themselves. – Wrote about how religion influenced capitalism (work ethic) comparing Catholicism with low development and Protestantism with high development.
