Word: max
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Ralf Dahrendorf, director of the London School of Economics, argues that the welfare state produces what German Sociologist Max Weber called "the iron cage of bureaucratic bondage." He admits that centralization and government activity in the modern economy are inevitable but stresses that in the future the burden of proof for turning over functions to the government must rest "on the centralizers and not the other way around...
...order to build savings as a source of investment funds. Limited consumption and hard work were required to create more capital and more consumption for the future. Self-denial and individual diligence in this life were signs of someone's virtue and even of salvation in the next life. Max Weber labeled this "the Protestant ethic...
...verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older and ailing. They have sheltered Philly all his life in their small home in Flushing, N.Y. But now changes must be made, and at the gentle urging of Ira, Philly begins to move out into the world...
...Max dies, and tough old Pearl now seems weak and uncertain. The film is not simply about a son living on; it is about the shock and sadness of parents dying...
...teachings soon overshadowed their God-struck author. John Knox carried Calvinism to Scotland, converting the rambunctious Catholic country with messages of doom. Puritan Jonathan Edwards shook the New World when he called the colonials "sinners in the hands of an angry God." Early in the 20th century, German Sociologist Max Weber found in Calvinism the seedbed of capitalism, a "Protestant ethic" that drove men to accumulate wealth as evidence of divine approval...