Born Karl Emil Maximilian By Max Weber

Karl Marx, born in Tier, Prussia on May 5th, 1818. He was the oldest surviving boy in a family of nine. He was the son of a successful lawyer and Dutch Women. He was homeschooled until the age of twelve, then attended the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium, in which he would then graduate at the age of seventeen. He then attended Bonn University, where he would first study Jurisprudence, to fulfill his father’s wish for him to become a lawyer. Later, he would transfer to political economy and Hegelian philosophy due to his interest.

After the death of his mother his music career became even greater. After taking some time off due to his mother’s death, Ludwig moved to the city of Vienna in the year of 1790 to work on his music career. When Ludwig arrived in Vienna, he began studying with Joseph Haydn. “While being in Vienna and studying, Ludwig wasn’t a happy student of Haydn because Haydn never had the time to teacher Haydn (Green).” A few moves after arriving to Vienna, Ludwig had to return home to the city of Bonn because he learn that his father had passed away. After dealing with everything with his father’s death, Ludwig

After Adolf’s father died, his mother allowed him to quit going to the Realschule School in Linz. Less than a year later in September of 1904, he enrolled in Reaslschule in Steyr. Quite quickly, his grades showed improvement. But, Adolf was not satisfied with this previous career choice of arts and left the school in 1905 without any ambitions of further schooling. In fact, he did not even have any plans for his career.

John Henry Weber was born in Holstein in 1779. He grow up to be a fur trapper. During his time

People commonly draw similarities between the relationship of a father and son and that of a man and their shadow. However, this raises several questions. What is one to do if their shadow becomes larger than themselves? Or perhaps the shadow no longer resembles the man? Such questions arise in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and the graphic novel MAUS by Art Spiegelman. While no definite conclusions can be drawn, they act as guidelines in explaining why the family culture that emerges as a result of Holocaust events deters father-son relationships. The Jews all respond differently, causing such uprooted father-son connections and proving that similar religious beliefs do not necessarily translate to similar decisions in extenuating conditions.

He was born into a Catholic family with German origins in a small town in Austria-Hungary ( later Zwittau, Czechoslovakia) on April 28th, 1908 and he grew up in Zwittau, Moravia. He had a younger sister named Elfriede and he is Son of an uneducated alcoholic who sold electric motors for a father and an elegant and pleasant woman as a mother. He died on October 9th, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany due to heart and liver problems. He had

Leo Szilard (originally Leo Spitz) was born in Budapest (Austria-Hungary) on February 11th, 1898. His middle-class Jewish parents: Louis Spitz, a civil engineer and Thekla Vidor, raised him. Convinced that there was no future for him in post-war Hungary, Szilard left his homeland for Berlin when he was 21 years old. The young man enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, where he attended lectures given by Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Walter Nernst, James Franck and Max von Laue. Szilard received German citizenship in 1930, but was already uneasy about the political situation in the country. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany he urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. In our timeline he also successfully

An event from one’s past can haunt someone for his entire life. In the play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Paul Zindel presents Beatrice, the unpleasant mother of Ruth and Tillie, and gives insight into a parent-child relationship full of complications and conflicts. From verbally abusing and mistreating her children, Beatrice causes her children to feel inferior and alone. Due to experiencing an unconventional childhood, Beatrice has no knowledge of what a parent should be. As a result, Ruth and Tillie often feel the need to overcompensate in order to be noticed by their mother, and they feel as if their mother is distant and not relatable.

The dominant political figure of German history in the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, was born in a lower middle class family in the provincial Austrian town of Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889. In 1907 Hitler applied to enter the Vienna Academy of Art but his application was rejected. After the death of his mother Klara, Hitler decided to move to Vienna. He drifted from job to job, often selling sketches or painting scenes of Old Vienna and it was a period that he himself later called the most miserable period of his life. Many of Hitler’s views of the world were shaped by his experiences on the streets of Vienna and it is probable that his violent anti-Semitism dates from this time.

Before discussing Marx and Weber’s theories we must look at their upbringing and who has influenced their works. Karl Marx was born in West Germany in a small business city called Trier, in 1818 (Karl Marx, Intro. to Part III, Pg.135). Karl Marx was the son of a rich family and

After his father died in 1903, his mother allowed him to drop out of his school and 2 years later, he went to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria in order to become an artist. He failed in entrance exam and decided to remain in Vienna as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. A year later, he tried to take entrance exam and he failed again. While he run out of money, he moved into a homeless shelter and remained for several years. During his time in Vienna, he learned to hate non Germans. He was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself as a German.

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber assert that capitalism is the dominion of abstractions and the irrational accumulation of abstract wealth for the sake of wealth. For Marx, the state of capitalism is entrenched in the social classes to which people have bben assigned. Capitalism, according to Marx, is a result of the bourgeoisie 's ascent to economic and political power. This fuels the manifestation of a system that exploits the labour power of the lower socioeconomic classes for the gain of the higher socioeconomic classes. Weber understands the state of capitalism to be the end product of the work ethic of the Protestant branches of Christianity and the secularization of Protestant puritanism, which helped fuel rationalism. Capitalism, according to Weber, is to be understood as the relations and methods of production and commodities, now rationalized. Ultimately, Marx ascribes the ascent of capitalism to the exploitation of people and power, while stressing that such a system can be overcome by a communist revolution, whereas Weber states that such a system is the result of cultural choices and is not as convinced that capitalism can be overcome.

Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany on April 21, 1864. He also came from a middle class background. Weber's father was a

Max Weber a German sociologist born in 1864. He was primarily concerned with the modern western society. He saw that the behaviour of individuals was increasingly

Max Weber was one of the world's greatest sociologists and wrote a lot about the capitalist world he lived in. He had a different conception of capitalist society than most of his contemporaries. He looked at capitalism from all the different aspects that the philosophy was made of. Some of these aspects are state power, authority, class inequality, imperialism, and bureaucracy. To understand how Weber thought one must look at each area separately then put them all together in a global package.