1918 Flu Pandemic

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Deaths from the 1918 flu pandemic, Max Weber, Guillaume Apollinaire, Hubert Parry, SS Talune, Louis Botha, Leefe Robinson, Charles W. Fisher, Randolph Bourne, Joe Hall, Willard Dickerman Straight, Fritz Otto Bernert, Charles Griffes, Suematsu Kench, Dudley John Beaumont, Frank Granger Quigley, Minik Wallace, John Martin Poyer, Tatsuno Kingo, Rodrigues Alves, William Walker, Myrtle Gonzalez, Alfred Hindmarsh, Harold Gilman, George Raymond Dallas Moor, Ella Flagg Young, Alan Arnett McLeod, Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet, George Freeth, Prince Takeda Tsunehisa, Larry Chappell, Albert Edward McKenzie, Bohumil Kubi ta, Charles Ignace Ad lard Gill, yama Sutematsu, Angus Douglas, Felix Arndt, Admiral Dot, Henry Gabriel Ginaca. Excerpt: Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (German pronunciation: 21 April 1864 - 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with mile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science. Weber's main intellectual concern was understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularization, and "disenchantment" that he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity. His thinking about the nature of these developments in the modern Western world led to the development of "critical theory," particularly in the work of later social thinkers such as Theodor W. Adorno and J rgen Habermas. Also highly influential was his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The P...