All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself. Max Weber ageanalysiscultural share on social
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. Max Weber complementaryconvictionethic Change image and share on social
It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess. Max Weber astonisheasilyfact share on social
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. Max Weber agecomputationgood Change image and share on social