POLI 231 Lecture - Weber's Politics as a Vocation

CORRECTION: As this continues to amass views, I wanted to point out an error I made at 12:21. Max Weber did not write Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, but he did defend the emergency executive powers that would become the basis of Article 48. Source: Eliaeson, Sven. 2000. "Constitutional Caesarism: Weber's Politics in their German Context". In The Cambridge Companion to Weber, edited by S. Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 142 at Google Books.

0:00 Intro
1:44 Lecture Begins
1:52 Weber as Empirical Sociologist
2:36 Definition of the State
3:25 Legitimacy
4:50 Traditional Legitimacy
5:38 Charismatic Legitimacy
7:58 Bureaucratic/Legal Legitimacy
10:34 Modernity is Bureaucratic
11:43 The Charismatic Leader
12:55 The Two Ethics
15:14 Every System is a Mix

In response to a survey I sent out asking students which theorists they most needed to review, here is a short video on Weber, since this was one of the largest areas of confusion.

Importantly, this video is not meant to replace your own review work for the final exam. It's meant primarily to help explain some of the more difficult concepts you might be struggling with after you've done your review.

Видео POLI 231 Lecture - Weber's Politics as a Vocation канала Alec Crisman