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A Consideration of Sociology, Sociologists, and Theory: In six pages this paper discusses various sociological concepts along with pioneering macro theorists, sociologists, and an examination of how sociologists think, how culture is defined and its societal implications, and considers how human beings become human from a sociological perspective. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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promoting order and unity among human beings. Their level of education may exert an influence how sociologists think, but essentially their thought processes vary little from those of anybody
else. The distinctions in how they conceptualize sociology are reflected in their nationality and the times in which they live and work. Two classical sociological theorists - Max
Weber (1864-1920) and Erving Goffman (1922-1982) - clearly bear this out. Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany on April 21, 1864, the son of a prosperous politician and
his equally politically connected wife.1 A sickly child, Weber pursued a study of economics, law, and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1882, but showed a definite lack
of initiative. He much preferred drinking with his friends to academic study.2 He moved to Strassburg for a year of mandatory military service, which profoundly influenced his later
thoughts on bureaucracy. Resisting the militarys attempts to transform men into machines, Weber returned to the academic sphere after his military service, and upon receiving his Ph.D. began teaching
law in Berlin. In 1893, he married his second cousin Marianne Schnitzer, and began teaching economics for a period. Suffering a nervous breakdown following the death of his
father, thereafter Weber became a hospital administrator, which obviously further influenced his thoughts on bureaucracy. Weber began to recognize the need for bureaucracy in society as a means of
ensuring organizational efficiency. He was later a German Armistice Commission consultant, and assisted in the drafting of the Weimar Constitution following the defeat of Germany in World War I.3
This is when his sociological thoughts began to take shape, molded by Webers patriotism and fascination with the role economics plays in sociology. According to Max Weber, peoples
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