MAX WEBER

Max Weber is a well-known German political economist and psychologist. Max Weber was born in Germany. Weber attended to the University of Heidelberg in 1882. In 1884, after he served for the military, Weber returned to his parents' home to study at the University of Berlin. Weber continued his study of history until the late 1880s. He earned his law doctorate in 1889 by writing a doctoral dissertation on legal history entitled The History of Medieval Business Organizations and later on he was qualified to hold a German professorship. . There he was appointed professor of economics at Freiburg University.
In 1904 Weber published his essay “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism“, which was the only one of his works that was published as a book during his lifetime. Max Weber died of pneumonia in Munich on June 14, 1920.
Weber is considered the most important classical sociological theorist. Because he investigated many areas and since his approach and methods were much more related to sociological analysis. Weber interested in politics, history, language, religion, law, economics, and administration, in addition to sociology,. Weber first investigated industrial sociology, then sociology of religion and sociology of government, which made him famous. His most famous work is his essay In 1904 Weber published his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which was the only one of his works that was published as a book during his lifetime. Max Weber died of pneumonia in Munich 1920.
Weber is considered the pioneer of classical sociology. Because he investigated many areas and since his approach and methods were much more related to sociological analysis.
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”
In his book,. Weber argued that religion was one of the important reasons for the different ways the cultures of the West and East have developed, and stressed importance of particular characteristics of ascetic Protestantism which led to the development of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal state in the western world.
Weber continues to study interaction between religious ideas and economic behavior. He concluded that Calvinist ethic and ideas effected the development of capitalism in western world. For Weber there are three main types of political leadership, domination and authority. These are Charismatic domination , traditional domination, legal domination.