Ethnographer Clifford Geertz says: “Believing, with Max…

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those…

— Clifford Geertz

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree…

— William Klein

“The final goal of which an ethnographer should never lose sight…is, briefly, to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to…

— Bronisław Malinowski

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data…

— Clifford Geertz

I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the…

— George Ritzer

“Thomas Hobbes said that man is a wolve for anothe one. It seems to me that this became the basic foundation ideology for the…

— Steinar Stjernø

“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at…

— Cameron Adams

“A completely different aspect, however, the thoroughly incommensurable one, lies in the imposition of accepting that the torso sees me while I observe it…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one…

— Marilynne Robinson

In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped…

— Eric Foner

“But, as the conflict-studies scholar Jayne Docherty argues, the F.B.I.’s approach was doomed from the outset. In “Learning Lessons from Waco”—one of the very…

— Anonymous

“A century ago, in his 1905 classic work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber argued that striving for success is…

— Scott A. Sandage

“Max Weber, who we met in the previous chapter, provided the most famous and widely accepted definition of the state, identifying it with the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“From Hobbes’s theory of the sovereign ruling by authority to Max Weber 250 years later, defining the state in terms of a monopoly of…

— Kenneth Minogue

“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense of critical…

— eric voegelin