Max Weber
1864 – 1920 · Germany · Political Economy, History
Linked bureaucracy, religion and capitalism; founded the sociology of organisations.
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- Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406 · History, Economics
The Muqaddimah's sociology of solidarity and state cycles anticipates Weber's comparative method.
- Karl Marx
1818 – 1883 · Political Economy, Philosophy
The Protestant Ethic answers historical materialism with the causal weight of belief.
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