Name =Monica
e-mail =monica@erols.com
Major =Universidad de Cuyo-Argentina
Evaluation =Is/was useful. I am preparing a Web page for my students in Sociology of Knowledge, where Weber is a main "actor". I really enjoyed your page, in fact I will make a link with it. Thanks, Monica Bordon, Full Professor, Sociology of Knowledge.

Your page on Max Weber was right on target for my paper research.  It gave me new perspective, and stimulated an interest in pursuing Weber and others further.

I could have never found the concise coverage you provided in the library.

Thanks once again

Richard
Retired, USAF
Student again.

Thank you!

Thank you for creating a site such as this, it helped me well with my Social Science subjects.

Sincerely,

Robert

Thanks

i was browsing, thinking of various sites for reference. i anticipate you will get some of my students.  weber has fascinated me for years, and engaged my thinking on several levels during the last few years. doing some of my phd studies at oxford and visiting heidelberg, have only fueled my weber-flames.  i have especially been interested in worldview transformations and weber is an unending source of stimulation on so many levels. i find him perennially fresh.

i have been using lawrence harrision's underdevelopment is a state of mind in one of my classes, finding his insights on the relations between ideas and structures very weberian.  thanks again, for a great website.

Regards,
LRM

   -Mike

I found this site wonderful. As a Weber newbie, I found the Zweckrational -> logical optimization -> bueaurcracy -> oligarchy well brought out and very clear.  (Doing a survey assignment on Taylor, Mayo, Weber and Fayol) for ISE 250 Understanding Total Quality and Organizational Learning... Thanks a lot!

-Donald

I am a student at Salem College majoring in Sociology.  I found your information very easy to read as well as understand and am very grateful.  I also actually enjoyed reading it.  Thank you for all your work.

Thank you for your efforts.  I am working with a Borough (Local Government Authority) in London (England) where the CEOs change management team engaged me to assist staff in coping with the pressures of change.

Not least of these pressures is the manifest 'irrationality' of the organisation and the behaviour of some of its officers.

Understanding helps and your site is pitched at a level that most can access and when that is not possible directly it makes a workpiece that can exercise supervisors in communicating with their staff.

Thank you from all of us.

Martin Bostock

The only suggestion that I'd make is to identify Rogers State University somewhere on the Weber site.  I had to look around for it since 'rsu'
didn't immediately compute for me.

Valerie J. Simms
Northeastern Illinois University

I was just wondering what you thought of this area especially in regards to Weber.

Thanking you in advance for any ideas.

Yours Sincerely

Tom Morley

much appreciated
matt

regards B Burley

thank you
mike

I found this site wonderful. As a Weber newbie, I found the Zweckrational -> logical optimization -> bueaurcracy -> oligarchy well brought out and very clear.

(Doing a survey assignment on Taylor, Mayo, Weber and Fayol) for ISE 250 Understanding Total Quality and Organizational Learning...

Thanks a lot!

-Donald

I am currently preparing a short presentation on Max Weber for my Public Administration class (PSC 361), and I found your web page to be extremely
helpful, as it offers concise information about Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy. The way you presented your information makes it easy to access, and even easier to understand. Max Weber is not new to me, as he was one of the first scholars I had to read when I started college in Germany (Munich School of Political Science), my fellow American students here at the University of Montana, however, are in a different situation, and with the help of your web page it will extremely easy for me to tell them about the principles and basic tenets of Max Weber's work. Thank you.

Weber seems to suggest that there are only two routes for a person to take; as a bureaucrat or as a dilettante.

What a dreaful vision of the future...

I think it's interesting to note the disimilarities between the bureacracies
that Weber studied and the one's we currently participate in. Most notedly,
Weber describes that the bureaucracies were heirarchical, with information
traveling up and directives traveling down. Wouldn't he flip his lid if he
could get a good long look at the internet? And not only that, but how about
open source development?

Geez... if ever I was thankful for Post Modernism it was after reading this guy's stuff. (!)

Form Version =Fall 1997, Version 1.0
Site =Max Weber's HomePage
Name =Claudia
e-mail =@hotmail.com
Major =Open University
Evaluation =Yes, I liked your page - for the first time an indication how to reference webpages properly! Easy-to-use, although I needed my German since the expressions used in my study books are different ones! Only one minor problem: what/where is 'rsu'? I could not access the home page. Best wishes and thanks. C.R., England

I found the site incredible informative. I am studying a Business degree and was researching Max Weber for an organisational project. Your web site turned
what was a very uninformative task into an enjoyable reasearch article,
thanx!! 

Tina 

                                   -Satisfied Sociology Student

Thank you for a clear and understandable web site on weber, I shall continue to access your site through out my studies:)

Not least of these pressures is the manifest 'irrationality' of the organisation and the behaviour of some of its officers.

Understanding helps and your site is pitched at a level that most can access and when that is not possible directly it makes a workpiece that can exercise supervisors in communicating with their staff.

Thank you from all of us.

Martin Bostock

Just wanted to let you know I thought this Weber site to be excellent.  Very good presentation and enough to the point where it is not to verbose regarding Weber.  I look forward to seeing your C. Wright Mills page...

Thanks,

Kevin J. McIntosh

I have a friend Lynne Alice and she is teaching sociology at Pristina (Kosovo).   I was teaching English there and she sent me a copy of  the end of term exam she set.  I was using your site as a crib  :-) 

Thanks again 
John 

Chris Davy,  csdavy@aol.com

Form Version =Fall 1997, Version 1.0
Site =Verstehen: Max Weber's HomePage 
Name =REBECCA BLAKEMORE
e-mail =ESSRBLAK@livjm.ac.uk
Major =LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY
Evaluation =I WAS RESEARCHING WEBERS THEORIES FOR INFORMATION ON
BUREAUCRACIES. IT IS FOR MY HRM MODULE. I FOUND THE QUOTES FROM WEBER VERY GOOD.

I am a graduate Educational Administration student at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.  I am currently in a course on organizational design theory and its relationship to public schools. 

Your site was very helpful for my test preparation. 

Thank you! 

Sincerely,  Amy Oakley

Thank you for your informative website on Weber. I was looking at your section "In his words" and the
subsection "Bureaucracy" and came across the follwing quotation. Try as I might, I cannot find the reference for this wonderful quote. I was hoping you can add it to your website.

"It is horrible to think that the world could one day
be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little
men clinging to little jobs and striving toward bigger
ones--a state of affairs which is to be seen once
more, as in the Egyptian records, playing an ever
increasing part in the spirit of our present
administrative systems, and especially of its
offspring, the students. This passion for bureaucracy
...is enough to drive one to despair. It is as if in
politics. . . we were to deliberately to become men
who need "order" and nothing but order, become nervous and cowardly if for one moment this order wavers, and helpless if they are torn away from their total incorporation in it. That the world should know no men but these: it is in such an evolution that we are already caught up, and the great question is,
therefore, not how we can promote and hasten it, but what can we oppose to this machinery in order to keep a portion of mankind free from this parceling-out of the soul, from this supreme mastery of the bureaucratic way of life." 

Thank you so much!

--Karen Chia

Thanks in advance,

Trevor Counley

Jessica Trask

Thanks.

Cathy

Understanding.  Weber used the term to refer to the social scientist's attempt to understand both the intention and the context of human action.

Bill Mullens

Thanks a bunch,
Kris Erickson

Yours,

Hillel

I am a doctoral student at Walden University and an Assistant Professor of Criminal Just.  I needed information on Max Weber for research and came across your web site, which is very helpful. Thank you for doing a great job of building this site.

Please forgive me for the intrusion, but I could not help noticing your name: Elwell. My husband is an Elwell. His ancestors were originally from Scotland and mostly transitioned to Maine and to Massachusetts on the Mayflower. How interesting that we should come in contact this way.

Thank you for allowing me to chat with you.

Cheers,
Prof. Catherine A. Elwell

I have for most of my life considered myself a Marxist, being deeply influenced by his early philosophic manuscripts dealing with alienation as 
well as insights regarding  his labor theory of value.

I've always felt somewhat pinched by Marx's analysis in trying to explain so much through its nearly exclusive focus on class expropriation of labor as the fundamental cause of this self-estrangement. Your  piece has convinced me that Weber had deeper insights.

Thanks  again - though I fear you have left me more pessimistic than ever...(still...groping for the positive...there seems to be a swelling of 
resistance to the effects (particularly environmental) of "zweckrational" (instrumentalism?) which at least force its examination.

bill

Thank you for the information.  I have updated my link.  You have a
great site!

Gemmy

I found your site last year when a couple of first year undergraduates were good/foolish enough to cite it - thus allowing me to fail dozens more for cutting and pasting without referencing - or in many cases understanding, which is always a giveaway.  We use Weber in teaching organisational behaviour to Business Studies students, so should perhaps not be surprised if they don't have much of a handle on sociology ("Weber did not live to see his ideal type bureaucracy, although it might work nowadays").

So, it being my turn for Weber this year, I had another look at your site, and there are half my slides, done.

Thanks again (I will give you credit!)

Liz Millward
Senior Lecturer
De Montfort University

Rocio Larios

Many thanks for this web page. For the first time I think I understand Weber! I now can't really see why it was at first so difficult to grasp! I found this site just in time because i've got an exam tomorrow. So once again thank you for making me understand.

                    Yours thankfully, R. Green. (student of  JMU, England) 
 

-TJ Flemings
Engineer, General Motors Corporation (for the moment)

Just a short note to thank you for providing this excellent resource.
 
 

I am an MBA student with the open University and am presently taking a module on human resource management.  I decided to go into more detail on the subject of structure and strategic human resource management so have found your page particularly helpful.  Indeed, working for a German pharmaceutical company I found myself reading the entire contents of the site rather than just skimming through.
 
 

Once again many thanks -- I'm sure that there are many others who have also benefited in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
 

Kind regards

David Montgomery
 

PS I will, of course, remember to acknowledge this source in my references!

This is a short note to thank you for posting the summary on Max Weber (http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/
Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm#Ideal).

I will be teaching an open university course where Max Weber is featured in a Decision Making section.  I found your summary easy to comprehend and useful for introducing students to Max Weber.

Once again, thanks.

Raj Komaran (PhD UCLA, MBA, Affiliate ACCA, BBA)
Principal Consultant
Smartberry Research International