Or maybe half an hour

I'm glad the video was helpful, Sara. Thank you for the encouragement.

I've heard many people say what you've said but I've heard just as many educated people in the US say that it is acceptable to use the B sound in the US (even though many people in the US still say it V). Case in point, Germans pronounce the W in Volkswagen with a V sound but in the US we pronounce it B even though it is a German name. Weber is a very common name in the US. It clearly has German origins but we say it with the B sound 100% of the time when it is an American. All that to say, V is the correct, traditional way to say it but B is an acceptable pronunciation in the US. And, believe me, I looked into it for a long time before I said it. For many words, two pronunciations can both be correct even though one is preferred. Anyway, thanks for the comment. I'm sure people will be debating this for a long time in academia. I wish Weber was here to tell us. :-)

He never asked a German!

I would not pronounce it with a Y myself, but maybe i pronounce it wrong

It's "Weaber", like in "wealth" or "weary", long vocal. Or like "web" but the e is long.

Your welcome from New York State (the part of the state with the Finger Lakes and Niagara Falls).

kimneinem chongloi hey prasad and prasad is a good book if you are interested in reading about Administrative thinkers and theories. Fellow Indian. ☺️

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Happy the videos are helpful, Jessica. Good luck in your studies.

So nice of you! Glad the videos are helpful.

Thanks I want to get this book. I read Bureaucracy by James Wilson which is more contemporary book that does source this one.

Hi, Nancy. I'm glad it was helpful. God bless you, too!

Glad it helped!

Happy to help, Rachel, from New York state!

My pleasure!

I'm glad the video was helpful, Guzman. Thanks for your encouragement.

I'm glad the videos are helpful. :-) Thank you for the encouragement.

I'm glad the videos are helpful. :-) Thank you for the encouragement.

Thank you Alex for your clear breakdown of Max Weber's theory

Glad you like the channel, Robert. I don't know anything about those topics, though. Wish I did. Sorry about that. My background is in communication in the workplace.

Organizational Communication Channel no worries you helped me out so much anyway as your videos really make it clear and easy to understand rather than reading lots of hand outs given in college, I just thought I'd change my arm as I'm really in a bit of bother in that area!!

Hi, Sabiha. I'm glad the video helped you.

Hello from New York!

Do you live in Poland?

No man live in Ireland for the last 10 years, iam currently 18 so you can do the math 😉 but my god I fully consider myself polish even though my accent might not suggest so 😅

I'm 1/2 Polish but really just American except for some really great Polish food and awesome relatives growing up. BTW, I'm switching between my two KZfaq channel accounts as I post. I replied about not knowing about a topic you requested in your other post. I do the Organizational Communication Channel and the one I'm posting under now, Communication Coach. I hope to visit Ireland someday. It's aways intrigued me. Thanks for posting.

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Happy to help!

Glad it was helpful!

Hello from NY state.

Thanks, Tygar.

Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.

It's actually more like Veh-ber.

@@hortshack7187 Yeah, I was vehemently taught by an amazing (American) professor that it is pronounce Vay-ber, as that would be how Weber himself pronounced it.

It's my pleasure. Thank you!

You're welcome! Glad it helped.

Thank you for the encouragement, Bri. I appreciate it. More videos on the way.

I think I agree with you. From my reading, he preferred a legal-rational approach over traditional/family authority and charismatic authority. He knew the shortcomings of bureaucracy but thought it was the best of the alternatives.

Hi John. It depends on what types of mean by public sector but I'll do my best to answer. Most large organizations in the public sector still run today in a bureaucratic fashion. The public sector mirrors and extends the legal-rational system of government. In that way, they are managed very similar to traditional government organizations. Having said that, my area of expertise is organizational communication and does not focus much on the public sector. I look more so at private organizations. Not sure this answers your question but that's what I've got for you.

Thanks it helps a lot.

Thank you, Dulom. I appreciate your encouragement. :-)

Agreed! I put it in there because it's a minor debate but really NOT supposed to be the subject of the video. But, what can you do? At least people are watching. :-)

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome, Cameron. I'm glad it helps.

Glad you like them!

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Glad it helped!

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Hi, Live Star Productions. Thank you for the encouragement!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks again, Neelam. :-)

Hi Oliver. Thanks for posting. I am no expert on particularism specifically. My understanding of it comes from regular old readings on Weber's Bureaucracy. You may want to start on Google Scholar and look up specific articles on that term in terms of drilling down. Good luck.

Yes, exactly. He thought bureaucracy was better than the alternatives but he saw its limitations.

Lulu Lavi He thought bureaucracy is the most efficient but rationality kills liberty

The iron cage started out more broadly than just with bureaucracy, he tried to describe how rationalization of our personal and societal lives informs and guides our actions. Bureaucracies are a manifest form of that. The German phrase he used that became "iron cage" was "stahlhartes Gehäuse der Hörigkeit" which directly translates to "steel hardened case of obedience". The obedience to rationality, objectivity, order, efficiency that over time manifests in systems, institutions even customs. Weber ended his 1904 work "The protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism" in an almost, in hindsight, ironic way by saying that this economic order of industrial production exerts such an overwhelming pressure("überwältigender Zwang") on everyone to abide by its logic and rule and that it will do so until the last ton of fossil fuel is burned up. ("bis der letzte Zenter fossilen Brennstoffs verglüht ist.") Weber analyzed industrialization and early capitalism and described the way it functions, but he was also critical about the implications it might have to let economic rationality and considerations of efficiency have such a massive influence on the way humans live. A perspective that may have been lost to the fact that forthcoming generations didn't ever get to know any other way. I always liked this quote, although I don't know if it translates as well: ‚Fachmenschen ohne Geist, Genussmenschen ohne Herz: dies Nichts bildet sich ein, eine nie vorher erreichte Stufe des Menschentums erstiegen zu haben.‘ "Professionals without spirit, connoisseurs without heart: This nothing imagines to have climbed to a never before reached level of humanity." In other words he feared efficiency for efficiency's sake. To me, Weber's work has been the best answer to the question of why we can't seem to do anything about climate change. The rationalities we follow and the systems we built around them aren't prepared for a scenario like this. And the power structures that formed as a result of this economic system prevent necessary change and reform. That's the iron cage. For over a century we followed the logic of growth, only to find out that we forgot to take a look at the logic of sustainability. But hey, we still got to call what we did "rational".

Glad you enjoyed it.

I'm just reporting what I've been told and researched. I'm not claiming to know myself. Apparently, even in certain parts of Germany, they pronounce it with the W sound. So, the reality is, people pronounce this differently, strictly speaking, neither are incorrect even if "Vey" is preferred. But, people sure do feel strongly about it.

Thank you, Jonas. I'm glad it helped.

Jonas Nambaya it is a great video