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This 25 page paper looks at how Max Weber’s theories regarding bureaucracy, political domination and legal legitimacy and what these may indicate for modern democracy. The paper begins by describing Weber’s relevant theories and explaining what these mean. The theories are then tested against historical development and examined for flaws before the findings are used to determine how they may apply to modern capitalist democracies, such as the potential requirement for written constitution and the need for continuing development of challenges to the existing bureaucracy through different legal tools. The bibliography cites 17 sources.
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created historically, that dominate, control and influence the bureaucracy and legal structures as well as the view and justification of its legitimacy. By examining the different perspectives, such as those
of Max Weber, on political power, bureaucracy and legal legitimacy increase knowledge and understanding may increase and indicate potential implications for modern democratic societies.
Max Weber was a German sociologist, Weber, along with Marx and Durkheim, is seen as one of the three great fathers of sociology. Weber worked with what he
saw as a science able to look at and interpret social actions and seek to determine a causal relationship between the course and the consequence1. Social actions are defined by
Weber as actions which "takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby orientated in course"2. This means social actions are the result of conscious thought. This is the
basis of Webers train of thought, it is form this that he starts out to try and explain why and how people act and react and the way that this
manifests tin the development of society. To understand the way Weber saw the different influences we first need to consider aktuelles Verstehen
and erkl?rendes Verstehen. The first of these is aktuelles Verstehen is observational understanding, here understanding is gain from observation, such as observing the behaviour of an angry man due to
the expression in a face, just as an action can be observed, for example, a man hitting a door. However, this is only a surface observation, and does not the
social action and to understand an action it is the motivations that cause that act and the meaning of the actions, it is this later understanding that is erkl?rendes Verstehen,
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