People worked hard long before there was a thing called the “work ethic,” much less a “Protestant work ethic.” The phrase itself emerged early in the twentieth century and has since congealed into a ...

Studi di Sociologia, Anno 54, Fasc. 1, Special issue on “Max Weber our Contemporary: 1864-2014” a cura di Cesare Silla (Gennaio-Marzo 2016), pp. 33-48 (16 pages) Having finished his essay on the ...

As we know, these fundamental assumptions of Weberian modernity are being challenged today as events unfold on the world stage. Take China and India, both once dominated by Europeans. Both have surged ...

Amid the chaos of the 1918-19 Munich Revolution, the sociologist Max Weber delivered an urgent warning about the perils of demagoguery, fanaticism, and charismatic leaders who confuse conviction with ...

In 1904, the sociologist Max Weber traveled across the United States, loved what he saw and wrote about it. In return, America became a fan of Max Weber’s writings long before his homeland Germany.

This paper examines the concept of brotherly love as utilized by Max Weber in his sociology of religion and, especially, in his famous 'vocational' speeches. It argues that a central concern of Weber ...

Max Weber (1864-1920), a German sociologist and political economist, remains one of the best-known and most read social scientists of the 20th century. In his seminal work The Protestant Ethic and the ...

In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book has been subject to severe and sustained criticism, much of it justified. Yet reflecting on its ...

When I embarked on my recent study of Islam in Europe, Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity, I saw the need to locate a conceptual frame in which to understand European society. I ...