Some False Premises of Max Weber's Sociology of Law

The Neo-marxist Synthesis of Marx and Weber on Class

IT HAS OFTEN BEEN COMMENTED that the bulk of Weber's sociology represents a prolonged " dialogue with the ghost of Marx " (Giddens, 1971, p. 185). Today it could equally be said that the bulk of contemporary Marxist writing represents a prolonged dialogue with the ghost of Weber. Without always acknowledging the fact (or even necessarily being aware of it), contemporary Marxists have drawn heav...

Scaling of perceptual errors can predict the shape of neural tuning curves.

Weber's law, first characterized in the 19th century, states that errors estimating the magnitude of perceptual stimuli scale linearly with stimulus intensity. This linear relationship is found in most sensory modalities, generalizes to temporal interval estimation, and even applies to some abstract variables. Despite its generality and long experimental history, the neural basis of Weber's law...

The Relationship between Socio-Economic Status and Music Consumption among the Youth in Tehran

This research studies the relationship between socio-economic status and music consumption among the youth. The socio-economic indexes include prestige, power and property from Max Weber's Theory. This survey covers a researcher-made questionnaire along with 200 young ones between 15-35 years of age living in Tehran (areas: Elahieh, Jourdan, Apadana, Enghlab, Kianshahr, Ra-ahan). Nine hypothese...

Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas: The Sociology and Philosophy of Law During Crises of the State

Weber's law implies neural discharge more regular than a Poisson process.

Weber's law is one of the basic laws in psychophysics, but the link between this psychophysical behavior and the neuronal response has not yet been established. In this paper, we carried out an analysis on the spike train statistics when Weber's law holds, and found that the efferent spike train of a single neuron is less variable than a Poisson process. For population neurons, Weber's law is s...