Max Weber (1864-1920) was a prussian (german) sociologist, economist, philosopher and jurist whose ideas influenced social theory and research. He studied in the University of Berlin and University of Heidelberg.
Weber is the father of bureaucracy, one of the most popular system of administration, which consist basically in the realization of standardized processes for invest resources with higher levels of efficiency. These processes must be executed by a set of people with special and specific competences.
Is important to emphasize to Weber was one of the founders of the sociology, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. He developed new theorical currents as the methodological antipositivism, in oposition to the positivism (known as "empirism" too), founding the "Frankfurt school", a new wave of social investigation.
I like their ideas because I think that antipositivism is an useful way to do social investigation. Is very important to considerate some things that we can't appreciate with our basical senses for a good work in the investigation. Also, I believe that bureaucracy is good system, but sadly, is hard to implement it on "real life" because people don't "make it work" as it should be. Most of people thinks that bureaucracy is a dreadful system.
Weber is very interesting because it gives attention to rationalization as key to development of Western civilization, a process which reflected in the bureaucracy
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