Weber's position was close to historicism, as he understood social actions as being heavily tied to particular historical contexts and its analysis required the understanding of subjective motivations of individuals ( social actors ).

Thus Weber's methodology emphasises the use of comparative historical analysis.

Weber's work in the field of sociology of religion started with the essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and continued with the analysis of The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism and Ancient Judaism.

Another reason for Weber's decision was that Troeltsch's work already achieved what he desired in that area: laying the groundwork for a comparative analysis of religion and society.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following his planned analysis of Psalms, the Book of Job, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

In Natural Right and History Strauss begins with a critique of Max Weber's epistemology, briefly engages the relativism of Martin Heidegger ( who goes unnamed ), and continues with a discussion of the evolution of natural rights via an analysis of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

Along with theories forwarded by Velben and Mauss, symbolic capital is an extension of Max Weber's analysis of status.

Another reason for Weber's decision was that Troeltsch's work already achieved what he desired in that area, which is laying groundwork for comparative analysis of religion and society.

The economist and historian Henryk Grossman criticises Weber's analysis on two fronts.

Thus Grossman solves the central crux of Weber's analysis: his puzzlement over how enough people were recruited into early capitalist manufacturing.

This discusses the essential concepts of Weber's sociology: " ideal type ," " empathic understanding ," " imaginary experiment ," " value-free analysis ," and " objectivity of sociological understanding ".

It can be used to analyze both a general, suprahistorical phenomenon ( like capitalism ) or historically unique occurrences ( like Weber's own Protestant Ethics analysis ).

There are two main forms of patrimonialism in Weber's analysis of traditional authority ( domination ).

" Weber's work, especially Marriage, Motherhood and the Law ( 1907 ), was devoted to the analysis of the institution of marriage.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with his planned analysis of Psalms, Book of Jacob, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

The central theme in Weber's analysis of modern society was the process of rationalization ; a far reaching process whereby traditional modes of thinking were being replaced by an ends / means analysis concerned with efficiency and formalized social control.

Weber's main work was in algebra, number theory, and analysis.

Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and " disenchantment " that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity and which he saw as the result of a new way of thinking about the world.

The relationship between capitalism and modernity is a salient issue, perhaps best demonstrated in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ) and Simmel's The Philosophy of Money ( 1900 ).

Weber's overarching argument was that with modernity, traditional bureaucratic patrimonial forms of government eventually gave way to modern capitalist bureaucratic rationalism as the main principle of both government and governance.

Weber's major works in economic sociology and the sociology of religion dealt with the rationalization, secularisation, and so called " disenchantment " which he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity.

Many scholars have described rationalisation and the question of individual freedom in an increasingly rational society, as the main theme of Weber's work.

It is argued that this work should not be viewed as a detailed study of Protestantism, but rather as an introduction into Weber's later works, especially his studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economic behaviour as part of the rationalisation of the economic system.

But, even though Weber's research interests were very much in line with that school, his views on methodology and the theory of value diverged significantly from those of other German historicists and were closer, in fact, to those of Carl Menger and the Austrian School, the traditional rivals of the historical school.

After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998.

Weber's thinking was strongly influenced by German idealism and particularly by neo-Kantianism, to which he had been exposed through Heinrich Rickert, his professorial colleague at the University of Freiburg.

Adorno was chiefly influenced by Max Weber's critique of disenchantment, Georg Lukács's Hegelian interpretation of Marxism, as well as Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history.

Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany.

They suggested that previous theories such as Weber's bureaucracy and Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management had failed because they neglected that management style and organizational structure were influenced by various aspects of the environment: the contingency factors.

* A distinction between the internal and external considerations of law and rules, close to ( and influenced by ) Max Weber's distinction between the sociological and the legal perspectives of law.

* A distinction between the internal and external points of view of law and rules, close to ( and influenced by ) Max Weber's distinction between the sociological and the legal perspectives upon law.

Ludwig von Mises was influenced by several theories in forming his work on praxeology, including Immanuel Kant's works, Max Weber's work on methodological individualism, and Carl Menger's development of the subjective theory of value.

Although not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction to Weber's later studies of interaction between various religious ideas and economics ( The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, and Ancient Judaism ), The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argues that Puritan ethics and ideas influenced the development of capitalism.

* A distinction between the internal and external points of view of law and rules, close to ( and influenced by ) Max Weber's distinction between the sociological and the legal perspectives of law.

They suggested that previous theories such as Weber's bureaucracy and Taylor's scientific management had failed because they neglected that management style and organizational structure were influenced by various aspects of the environment: the contingency factors.

He criticized Albrecht Weber's hypothesis that the story of the Ramayana was influenced by the Homeric epics.

Weber's work is generally quoted according to the critical Gesamtausgabe ( collected works edition ), which is published by Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen.

Schutz sought to provide a critical philosophical foundation for Max Weber's interpretive sociology through the use of phenomenological methods derived from the transcendental phenomenological investigations of Edmund Husserl.

Both Simmel and Weber's nonpositivist theory would inform the eclectic critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

Weber's thought regarding the rationalizing and secularizing tendencies of modern Western society ( sometimes described as the " Weber Thesis ") would blend with Marxism to facilitate critical theory, particularly in the work of thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas.

Max Weber's article has been cited as a definitive refutation of the dependence of the economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psychology has come back into the academic debate with the development of " behavioral economics.

The breadth of Weber's topical interests is apparent in the depth of his social theory:

* Weberian organization theory ( refer to Max Weber's chapter on Bureaucracy in his book ' Economy and Society ')

Weber's theory is not taken to mean that only the government uses physical coercion, but that the individuals and organizations that can legitimize coercion or adjudicate on its legitimacy are precisely those authorized to do so by the state.

Weber's insistence on the importance of domination and symbolic systems in social life was retained by Pierre Bourdieu, who developed the idea of social orders, ultimately transforming it into a theory of fields.

Developed in the Industrial Age, Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy centers around the theme of rationalization, rules and expertise.

However, " until the mid-20th century and the dissemination of the German sociologist Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy " there was not " much interest in a theory of public administration.

Weber's theory can explain some of the causes for current movement, yet such discussion did not come from Weber himself.

Most known examples are the theory of Karl Marx and Max Weber's three-component theory of stratification.

Following up on ideas that he had first introduced in a 1991 book about Hitler, Kershaw has argued that Hitler's leadership is a model example of Max Weber's theory of Charismatic leadership.

Weber's theory more-closely resembles contemporary Western class structures, although economic status does not currently seem to depend strictly on earnings in the way Weber envisioned.

Microsociology exists both as an umbrella term for perspectives which focus on agency, such as Max Weber's theory of social action, and as a body of distinct techniques, particularly in American sociology.

Although not usually counted as a sociocultural evolutionist, Max Weber's theory of tripartite classification of authority can be viewed as an evolutionary theory as well.

Fundamental inquiries into the nature of social relations are to be found in the work of the classical sociologists, for instance, in Max Weber's theory of social action.

An historical assumption is that New Product Development is conducted in a departmental stage process ( that can be traced back to the classical theory of the firm, e. g. Max Weber's bureaucracy or Henri Fayol's administration principles ), i. e. New Product Development activities are closely associated with certain department of a company.