SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blue-Collar Worker, Bourgeoisie, Marianne Weber

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: Young David

Document Summary

Father was a lawyer and it was said that he mistreated his mother. His uncle was a professor and a liberal. Weber began law school in 1882 at the university of heidelberg. He was known to be rowdy and a drinker and practiced fencing. Weber received a phd in law in 1891. He then began teaching at the university of berlin in 1891 lecturing. In 1894 he became a professor of economics at the university of. Married marianne weber who was his 2nd cousin. German feminist movement: tragedy and collapse. A family dispute caused his father to leave and he died several weeks later. Weber suffered a nervous breakdown after his fathers death: exhaustion, sleeplessness, anxiety, worsened into a severe depression. Started to recover in 1903 six years after the breakdown. He returned to academic work in 1904. After recovering he moved into a productive period of writing: some of his most famous works were produced here.