Resources

4th Online discussion: «Max Weber’s Concept of Ordnung»

WSN EVENT #4 | Max Weber’s Concept of ORDNUNG

w. Andrea Salvatore Cerfeda and Prof. Andreas Anter

Mediator: Yannis Ktenas

Andrea Salvatore Cerfeda, who is currently working on his PhD in philosophy in Florence, elaborates on the central, though often overlooked Weberian concept of ‘order’ [Ordnung]. Prof. Andreas Anter, an expert discussant shares his view on the matter.

Andrea Salvatore Cerfeda is a researcher at the universities of Turin and Florence. His interest in Weber focuses on his conception of social order from a political and philosophical point of view.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Anter works at the University of Erfurt in Germany. His research focuses on State Theory, Constitutional Politics and Max Weber’s Work in our contemporary world.

3rd Online discussion: «Weber and Ukraine»

WSN EVENT #3 | WEBER and UKRAINE

w. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev

Mediators: Victor Strazzeri and Edith Hanke

Prof. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev is a sociologist and political scientist based in Kyiv with over twenty years of teaching and research experience in Ukraine and overseas. Pavlo is a Professor of sociology and Sociology Department chair at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Currently, he is working in the area of sociology of modernization and development, social theory of modernity, historical sociology of the developmental state, and comparative politics of the post-communist transformations. He has also published three books and numerous articles in sociology, comparative politics, and history of the social thought. During his career, he has held numerous fellowships at the leading academic centers in the USA, the UK, Austria and Japan, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship and Chevening Scholarship. Pavlo has been relying heavily on Weber’s ideas in his analysis of the post-Leninist societal transformation and state-building, he’s been making use of the concept of neo-patrimonialism as applied to explain post-Soviet political dynamics.  Finally, he has also done research on bureaucracy and its ethos as well as the prospect of rationalization/modernization of the Ukrainian society.