Max Gerson

Weber authenticated rationality pertaining to values and believed that who are hopeful of the capitalist economy, liberal politics and rationality to rescue human kinds are wrong and he sought an alternative way. He put emphasis on religious faith & morality and believed: “If values become restored, human life will survive from this condition. However, there is an important question in here: “What are these values?”. It seems the values require theoretical bases and epistemology. In other words,…

Human nature is a way to describe the characteristics of individuals, which relates to the formation and organization of society because of the morals and desires fueled by dominant voices, or collective voices. Human nature, with a Marxist viewpoint is a way for individuals to view themselves as a member of a species, within a society that follow certain guidelines and rules in order to sustain the binary of society. The binary of society exist within the work of these theories to conceptualize…

Introduction In this paper, I will discuss positivist, biological, as well as psychological theories providing a comparison as well as contrast for each. Discussion The use of positivist theories emerged with the American, French, as well as the Industrial Revolutions prompting tremendous social changes throughout the world (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). In 1820, the term positivism was attributed to Auguste Comte during his works with Saint-Simon while developing their works of physical sciences in…

Sociological Imagination was a term first used by the sociologist C. Wright Mills. Sociological Imagination can be defined as “the ability to make connections between our personal experiences and the larger forces of history (lecture notes).” The cultural and social historical events are the sociological structures that can affect our life. This paper will use sociological imagination to connect my personal life to some historical events in the past years. This includes historical events such as…

The Three IPE Theories and Appropriateness of Marxism Within international economic policy, there are three main ideologies. International economic policies tend to fall under mercantilism, liberalism, or Marxism. As the study of economics, technologies, and organizations all evolved, these ideas came into being. Each way of thinking comes with assumptions, policies, pros, and cons. Mercantilism’s most basic assumption is that a country’s only true measure of strength and wealth is the amount…

Question #2: Define in detail the Thomas Theorem, explain how it is relevant to sociology, and explain how it helps explain sociological events in Chicago. W.I Thomas (1863-1947) was an influential sociologist who was at the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. Thomas mainly focused on the importance of the interactive dependence of individuals and social life and culture. He is well known for his term “the definition of the situation”. This term means that before an individual…

Where Can We Put Phenomenology, Logical Positivism, and Critical Theory in The Urban Planning Context? This short paper addresses the evolution of social inquiry in the planning actions. To shed some light on the social inquiry subject and its development in the planning field Logical Positivism, Phenomenology, and Critical Theory approaches will be examined in detail. These three perspectives will be compared and contrasted in each other to obtain similarities and differences in what is seen as…

Section one Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective that focus on the relationships among individuals in a society. The theory sees people as the one that shape the world around them, and that their social definition is what makes up reality. This reality is created by social interaction in society, and can be modified when more of the interaction has process unfolds and interpretation changes. Social theorists and scientists that use symbolic-interactionist look for patterns of…

“Reputation”, can be considered as a social term. The concept of reputation is made up of two major elements; the first is the person and how much does he work to gain a good reputation among the people in the society. The second element is the social criteria which the members of the society use to judge the reputation of any one in the society. In this essay I will discuss the reputation of one of the famous divas; Madonna Louise, the most famous pop American singer, she has got the title of…

Transactional Leadership Transactional Leadership was first introduced by Max Weber in 1947 and later by Bernard Bass in the 1980’s. Transactional leadership came about because prior leadership was based on traits and situations; scholars realized that sometimes leaders need to be more contingent on rewards and punishment in order to get things done (Day & Antonakis, 2012). Weber (1947) stated that transactional leaders were bureaucratic and sought change in their work environment through…