Max von Stephanitz

Protestant Work Ethic Attitudes and Economics Protestant Work Ethic is based on the theory that one must work to contribute to society, the church, and others, to be a valuable member of society. One must work gain entry into heaven and obtain salvation. He must take responsibility for his own actions. (Goldstein & Eichhorn, 1961) PWE does not value wasted time. Weber’s theory says wasting time and an unwillingness to work is a sin and brings about abstinence from grace. (Furnham, The…

Braddock had been given the lucky opportunity to fight John Griffin who was also known as Corn. Everyone was amazed and John Griffin was very upset when Braddock knocked him out in the third round. June 13th of 1935, was the day James Braddock fought Max Baer for the name of the heavyweight champion. Before the fight Baer said “I don’t want to fight The Cinderella Man because I’m so scared I will kill him.” Everyone thought for sure Braddock was too old and couldn’t win against Baer. After a…

Man is supposed to be independent, self-ruling, free, individualistic, and uncontrolled in a society. Thus, what we see is that workers in a capitalist economy become alienated through different aspects in one’s life, which ultimately decreases the value of an individual. In the 19th century, an influential socialist thinker emerged named Karl Marx. He wrote the manuscript “Alienated Labor”, which speaks about how man simply becomes isolated in his own work and feels a detachment from…

An interview is when an interviewer ask specific questions to a selected person in order to get information about a certain topic. Positives to interviewing a person would be more personal responses given by the person for a specific topic and also the person can go more in depth with answers. Negatives to interviewing a person would be the possibility of the person lying about answers given and also a small sample size. I had the opportunity to personally interview a person. The person that I…

In the book Emile or on the education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher provided a treaty dealing with the art to create perfect good men. Through the life of Emile, a fictive character, the text provides, step-by-step the educational question and how people must be educated in our society. The question of the education has always been a significant issue in our society. According to the dictionary, education is: “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially…

I sat down at the dinner table with my family. My parents ask me how my semester went and to share some interesting things that I have learned at school. I begun with the question ‘how do you define religion?’ followed by ‘what do you think the role of religion is in our world?’. I understand very well those are very personal questions and no right answer. However, these simple questions can reveal so much from the person’s identity to their personality to their openness to diversity and wisdom.…

The main crux of Karl Marx’s theory of class lies on the notion that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (Marx et al. 1992). As he sees it, humans have been struggling with class divisions and conflicts resulting from that for thousands and thousands of years. The conflict between the haves and haves not continues to build before tensions erupt and a revolution occurs that restructures the order of society. This has been continuously happening over…

What facet of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life led to the prominence of the person we know as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”? Perhaps his prominence is best explained through his work on The Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and his coworkers worked tirelessly to produce a history altering advance in warfare -- known as the atomic bomb, warranting the nickname “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”. Perhaps Oppenheimer’s prominence is a direct reflection of his academic schooling and his intellect.…

Application Project Max Weber built his theory of social stratification on Georg Simmel’s theory of money and Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism. As he watched capitalism change in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Weber formed the notion that many factors define a variety of social and economic positions, and an individual’s “life chances” – the level of access to resources such as food, shelter, health care, education and legal representation – is determined by separate continuums of wealth, power…

History has been proven that there have been a lot of means that has brought human beings together and some of this means are religion, politics, education etc. Nature has been the main thing that controls human existence on the planet and every development and increase in human life has come into existence as a result of production. Men have been able to distinguish themselves from animal producing their means of subsistence which is within their existence and through this process which we term…