Can you give me a brief summary of Max Weber's life?

[Olivia]

I need to know just a brief summary of his life. Maybe 2-3 paragraphs on what he's most famous for and stuff like that.

[Brad]

Hi Olivia

Maximilian Karl Emil
"Max" Weber (German: [ˈmaks ˈveːbɐ] ; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself.[2] Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx , as one of the three founding architects of sociology. [3][4][5] Weber was a key
proponent of methodological
antipositivism , arguing for the study of social action through interpretive (rather than purely empiricist) means, based on understanding the purpose
and meaning that
individuals attach to their
own actions. Weber's main
intellectual concern was
understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and "disenchantment" that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity[6] and which he saw as the result of a new
way of thinking about the world.[7] Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis
combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective
affinities" associated with
the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational- legal nation-state . Against Marx's " historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance
of cultural influences
embedded in religion as a
means for understanding the genesis of capitalism. [8] The Protestant Ethic formed
the earliest part in Weber's
broader investigations into
world religion: he would
go on to examine the religions of China, the religions of India and ancient Judaism, with particular regard to the
apparent non-development
of capitalism in the
corresponding societies, as
well as to their differing
forms of social stratification .