Question

Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae criticizes a concept formulated by this thinker as being “the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality.” That concept formulated by this thinker transitions into institutional types through “routinization.” This thinker defined abstract constructs that order reality as “ideal types” in his essay collection The Methodology of the Social Sciences. The framework of social action theory was applied to an English translation of this thinker (-5[1])by Talcott Parsons. This thinker divided legitimate leadership into traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal authority in his lecture (10[2])“Politics as a Vocation.” (10[1])In one book, this thinker claimed that the title group’s “calling” to profit created an “iron cage” of (10[1])rationality. (10[1])For 10 points, name this German sociologist who wrote The Protestant Ethic (10[1])and (10[2])the Spirit of Capitalism. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Max Weber [or Maximilian Karl Emil Weber]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Iyanu NafiuYale CColumbia A67-5
Andrew MinagarYale BNYU B8410
Andre WongColumbia BBard A8410
Nathan ZhangCornell CVassar8810
Karsten RynearsonYale ARutgers B10610
Alex MoonPenn APrinceton B10710
Ashish KumbhardareRowan AColumbia C11910
Aum MundheRutgers APrinceton A12010
Ethan FurmanHaverfordPenn B12010
John John GrogerColumbia AYale C12510

Summary

2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia11/11/2023Y9100%0%11%105.89