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| Verstehen: Max Weber's Home Page | | This is a comprehensive website designed by Frank Elwell at Rochester State University. Here you will find a description of all of Weber's key concepts, as well as real-life examples and pictures illustrating each. Also included is a discussion of the concept of social action.
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http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm
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| The Dead Sociologists' Society: Max Weber | | The Weber section of this website provides background on Weber the person; a summary of his ideas, including the ideal type, authority, bureaucracy, rationalization, and class, status, and power. There are also excerpts from some of this works.
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http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#weber
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| Sociosite: Max Weber | | This site contains many links to works by and about Weber, in English and German, as well as a bibliography of Weber's writings.
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http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/weber.html
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| Max Weber: Social Action Theorist | | This site focuses on Weber's theory of action. It also draws some comparisons between Marx and Weber on a number of points, especially their arguments on class.
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http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/WEBER/Weber.htm
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| Bureaucracy | | Here you can read an excerpt from Max Weber's famous work on bureaucracy. The excerpt presents the characteristics of the ideal type of bureaucracy, and offers discussion comparing bureaucracy to other forms of organization.
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http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Weber/BUREAU.HTML
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| Criticisms of Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis | | This paper concisely summarizes the contentions of some of Weber's critics. It also discusses the impact of Weber's arguments regarding religion and capitalism on 20th-century sociology.
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http://www.cad.gatech.edu/support/sandra/paper.html
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| Weberian Sociology of Religion | | This site focuses on Weber's sociology of religion, as well as many original applications of his ideas to religion and society in Japan.
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http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/
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