This is an existential-phenomenological reading of Max Weber's "Class, Status, Party" that seeks a fuller understanding of meaning accomplishment in a stratified World. I appropriate stratification as ...

Sociology has long wrestled with ways to define, evaluate and measure social inequality. Indeed, the consequences of equality and inequality are implicit to the writing of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, ...

Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...

Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Special Issue on Max Weber and the Political (JANUARY/JULY 2009), pp. 143-163 (21 pages) The organicist and romantic ideologies of 19th century Germany and Weber's pervasive critique ...

Max Weber, the north German economist, proud reserve officer in the Kaiser's army, literal dueler with academic opponents, and co-founder of modern sociology, sits on every college reading list for ...

In 1919, with the smoke still clearing from the battlefields of the First World War, the German sociologist Max Weber began a systematic study of the nation-state by defining a state as any “human ...