* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1985 – Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist ( d. 1920 )

* 1974 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( b. 1897 )

* Fred Weber – vocals

In D. J. Depew and B H Weber, eds., Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, pp. 43 – 63.

# 1890 – 1893 Colonel John B. Weber ( Republican )

* Ghirardi – Rimini – Weber theory

In opera, a new Romantic atmosphere combining supernatural terror and melodramatic plot in a folkloric context was first successfully achieved by Carl Maria von Weber ( 1786 – 1826 ) and perfected by Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 1883 ) in his Ring Cycle.

* 1944 – Wolfgang Weber, German footballer

* 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist ( d. 1878 )

* 1826 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer ( b. 1786 )

Maximilian Karl Emil " Max " Weber (; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself.

He opposed both the leftist German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, a principled position that defied the political alignments in Germany at that time and which may have prevented Friedrich Ebert, the new social-democratic President of Germany, from appointing Weber as minister or ambassador.

Overall, Weber supported the goal of objective science, but he noted that it is an unreachable goal – although one definitely worth striving for.

Weber continued his investigation into this matter in later works, notably in his studies on bureaucracy and on the classification of legitimate authority into three types – Rational-legal, traditional and charismatic – of which the legitimate ( or rational ) is the dominant one in the modern world.

Weber showed that certain types of Protestantism – notably Calvinism – were supportive of rational pursuit of economic gain and worldly activities dedicated to it, seeing them as endowed with moral and spiritual significance.

This Weber called the " spirit of capitalism ": it was the Protestant religious ideology that was behind – and inevitably lead to – the capitalist economic system.

Weber listed several preconditions for the emergence of the bureaucracy: The growth in space and population being administered, the growth in complexity of the administrative tasks being carried out and the existence of a monetary economy – these resulted in a need for a more efficient administrative system.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

The psychometrician L. L. Thurstone, founder and first president of the Psychometric Society in 1936, developed and applied a theoretical approach to measurement referred to as the law of comparative judgment, an approach that has close connections to the psychophysical theory of Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Fechner.

At Lake Forest he published the first part of his " Handbook of Psychology ( Senses and Intellect )" in which he directed the attention to the new experimental psychology of Ernst Heinrich Weber, Fechner and Wundt.

Some of our senses operate in a logarithmic fashion ( Weber – Fechner law ), which makes logarithmic scales for these input quantities especially appropriate.

He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: " S = K Log I ", which became known as the Weber – Fechner law.

The most famous outcome of his inquiries is the law known as the Weber – Fechner law which may be expressed as follows:

* Weber – Fechner law

The Weber – Fechner law combines two different laws.

The Weber – Fechner law holds approximately for musical tempo ( the difference between a tempo of 60 beats per minute and 61 bpm is perceived as a much larger difference than between 200bpm and 201bpm ).

Since Weber was not a psychologist, it was Fechner who realized the importance of Weber ’ s research in psychology.

Approaches to quantitative psychology were first modeled on quantitative approaches in the physical sciences by Gustav Fechner in his work on psychophysics, which built on the work of Ernst Heinrich Weber.

* Gustav Fechner publishes Elemente der Psychophysik, establishing the discipline of psychophysics and introducing the Weber – Fechner law on the intensity of stimuli.

There Stumpf met Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner, and served as an observer in their psychological experiments.

In Chapter 7, James suggests that Weber, Fechner, Vierordt, and Wundt might be the greatest experimental psychophysiologists of the 19th century.

A theoretical rationale ( not universally accepted ) was subsequently provided by Gustav Fechner, so the rule is therefore known either as the Weber Law or as the Weber – Fechner law ; the constant k is called the Weber constant.

Human rights are also described as a sociological pattern of rule setting ( as in the sociological theory of law and the work of Weber ).

In 1882 Weber enrolled in the University of Heidelberg as a law student.

Throughout the late 1880s, Weber continued his study of law and history.

In 1908, Weber published an article in which he drew a sharp methodological distinction between psychology and economics and attacked the claims that the marginal theory of value in economics reflected the form of the psychological response to stimuli as described by the Weber-Fechner law.

The Confucian notion that morality and self-discipline was more important than legal codes caused many historians, such as Max Weber, until the mid-20th century to conclude that law was not an important part of Imperial Chinese society.

Other discrimination tasks, such as detecting changes in brightness, or in tone height ( pure tone frequency ), or in the length of a line shown on a screen, may have different Weber fractions, but they all obey Weber's law in that observed values need to change by at least some small but constant proportion of the current value to ensure human observers will reliably be able to detect that change.

Weber ’ s law is considered the first quantitative law in the history of psychology.

However, subsequent studies by James Dewar and Heinrich Friedrich Weber showed that this Dulong – Petit law holds only at high temperatures ; at lower temperatures, or for exceptionally hard solids such as diamond, the specific heat capacity was lower.