Weber, Max
Weber, Max (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920)[edit]
A German sociologist, philosopher and political economist known as the principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. Weber was a key advocate of methodological anti-positivism. Much of his work was concerned with understanding the processes of rationalization, bureaucratization, and the “disenchantment” associated with the rise of modern capitalism. Following the First World War, he was one of the founders of the liberal German Democratic Party. His major publications include the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904), The City (1912), The Sociology of Religion (1922), General Economic History (1923), and the Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1925).
