Max weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society

1. Max Weber
Presented By
Nayeem Ahmed

2. Maximilian Karl Emil Weber
21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920
was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, who is
regarded as among the most important theorists of the development
of modern Western society.
Career & work
•In 1886 and earned his Ph.D. Law
•In1893 teaching economics at Freiburg University the following year, before
returning to Heidelberg in 1896 as a professor.
•After his father died in 1897, Weber suffered a mental breakdown (depression,
anxiety and insomnia)
•In 1903 editor at a prominent social science journal
•The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. published in 1904
•Medical service during World War I, After that The Religion of China (1916), The
Religion of India (1916) and Ancient Judaism (1917-1918)
•Spanish flu and died in Munich on June 14, 1920.
•Economy and Society was left unfinished; it was edited by his wife and
published in 1922

3. Methodology
A science which attempts the interpretive understanding
of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal
explanation of its course and effects.
Ideal type
An ideal type in an analytical construct that serves
the social investigator as a measuring rod to
ascertain the similarities as well as deviations in
concrete case

4. Hierarchy of Authority
01
Division of labour
Formal selection rules
03
Written Rules of conduct
04
02
Bureaucracy
Salaried careers
05

5. Rational Charismatic Traditional
Authority

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References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber#Early_work
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803121529170
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