A 2001 glossary definition of Weber's conception of an inner elective affinity. [8] |
“The study of human experience glitters with imaginative and insightful approaches—Marxist modes of production, Levi-Straussian structures, Weberian verstehen, the Batesonian mind, and many others, all of which share one characteristic: they pertain to no common universe; most are untranslatable one to another.”— Richard Adams (1988), The Eight Day (pg. xiv)
“Weber seems to me very much a man of a particular time. A man of whom it has been said (as it has of others) that he was the last person to know everything of importance that was to be known. A nonsensical idea, of course, but one which point to the extraordinary breadth of his interests in sociology, religion, economics, politics, history, music, and much else besides.”— Christopher Grey (2005) [7]
“Power is the probability of realizing one’s goals, even against the resistance of others.”— Max Weber (1922), Economy and Society [9]