Exam 4: Max Weber

Choose one of Weber's concepts (class, status, or party), define it and give a contemporary example.

People who share "life chances" or possibilities are labeled what by Weber?

What concept does Weber define as "the chance of a man or of a number of men to realize their own will in a social action even against the resistance of others…"?

Weber interpreted religious beliefs as

Religions founded in which of the following prophecies lead adherents away from workaday life by seeking salvation through extraordinary psychic states?

One of the major themes running through Weber's work is:

Discuss the calling. What was Martin Luther's role with it?

Explain Weber's definition of power and how it relates to the political community. Provide contemporary and historical examples.

The notion of the calling began capitalism as an economic form.

U.S. presidents preside via rational-legal authority.

Which type of authority is primarily individualistic:

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber quotes __________ in order to understand ____________.

Religions based on the emissary prophecy lead adherents away from workaday life by seeking salvation through extraordinary psychic states.

Explain and provide examples for the four features which ensure bureaucracy's technical superiority.

What was the significance of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation?