When1: 1905
When2: 1914
Who: Max Weber [Weber, Max]
What: sociologist
Where: Germany
works\ Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism [1905]; Theory of Social and Economic Organizations [1912]; Economy and Society [1914]
Detail: He lived 1864 to 1920. Social norms reflect meanings in human actions. Social actions reflect ethics, not economics.
Ethics
Ethics depends on responsibility. People want to have higher status.
Politics
Stabilizing factors for society are group traditions, common laws, constitutional law, and absolute value standard. Real or supposed personal qualities, such as sanctity, courage, heroism, character, savior, wisdom, and insight are destabilizing factors. Primitive societies have traditional religion, and societies that had crisis have rationalized religion. Protestant ethics underlie capitalism. Authority types are traditional, charismatic, and bureaucratic-rational-legal. Authority is attitude or norm. Authority does not necessarily have power to cause behavior in others. Legitimate power depends on tradition, person's charisma, or law and reason.
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