Max Weber

Question 1

During what time did Max Weber study the modern western society?

Answer 1

Shift from Feudalism to Capitalism and Industrialization

Question 2

Gist of Weber’s theories

Answer 2

combination of positivism and subjectivism; specific + general to give justice to the complex nature of life

Question 3

Device that Weber developed to develop generalizations

Answer 3

Heuristic Tools

Question 4

True or False. Heuristic Tools do not show the absolute representations of the world.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Why did Weber combined the specific to the general?

Answer 5

History is unique, however, for the real world to be studied, sociology must develop concepts that can generalize most phenomena.

Question 6

An approach of understanding social phenomenon and people resulting in thick descriptions

Answer 6

Verstehen

Question 7

The probability that an event will be followed or accompanied by another event

Answer 7

Causality –> interrelationships

Question 8

Basis of Causality

Answer 8

• subjective understanding of society
• historical meanings and reasons

Question 9

Substantive Sociology

Answer 9

Weber’s sociology of multi-causal approach

Question 10

A mental construct and heuristic device constructed through verstehen to understand a specific aspect of the social world or a historical individual

Answer 10

Ideal Types

Question 11

Four Ideal Types

Answer 11

1. Historical Ideal Types
2. General Sociological Ideal Types
3. Action Ideal Types
4. Structural Ideal Types

Question 12

Values and Teaching according to Max Weber

Answer 12

Teachers should control their personal values in the classroom
- objective
- scientific
- work is separated from political ideology

Question 13

Values and Research according to Max Weber

Answer 13

• Value-Relevance in selecting the project or problem
• Value Judgment in analysis of the Data
• Objectivity in the data collection

Question 14

Heuristic Device and Empirical Data

Answer 14

• heuristic device represents reality
• heuristic device serves as the conceptual framework in studying phenomena that produces empirical data
• empirical data may not be representative of the data
• the new empirical data may produce new heuristic device

Question 15

Sociology according to Max Weber

Answer 15

• science
• concerned with the causality of social action
• uses interpretive understanding (verstehen)

Question 16

Authority according to Max Weber

Answer 16

• structure
• ideal type
• heuristic device

Question 17

According to Rational-Legal Authority, what is the purest type of exercise of legal authority and rationality?

Answer 17

Bureaucracy

Question 18

Bureaucracy’s functions

Answer 18

process
mechanism
system
structure

Question 19

Ideal-Type of Bureaucracy

Answer 19

• highest degree of efficiency
• most rational authority
• most precise, stable, stringent, and reliable
• superior in its scope of operations
• capable of application to all kinds of administrative tasks

Question 20

Cons of of Bureaucracy

Answer 20

• iron cage –> imprisonment; alienate; estrange
• unshatterable; escape proof; hard to destroy

Question 21

Key to fix the problems of bureaucracy

Answer 21

Vocation instead of profession