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131 Personality and Institution Reflections on paradigmatic structures in Max Weber’s thinking Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Prof. Dr. Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Silvana Mirella Aliberti, PhD Candidate Department of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Abstract The structure of scientific revolutions - if we follow Thomas Kuhn - is characterized by crises of knowledge and chances by changes of paradigm, a term that is mostly outside the natural sciences only used metaphorically. But also, in sociology, there are something like paradigmatic premises, questioning, research strategies, conceptual structures and perspectives of research in the competition between successful major theories. At least that could be said of Talcott Parsons’s system theory in the period after the Second World War, maybe also of the Critical Theory or later of the approaches of Niklas Luhmann or Pierre Bourdieu. Against this background, the publishers of the Max Weber complete edition, especially Wolfgang Schluchter and his students, were concerned with establishing a “Weber paradigm” more than half a century after the death of this “Myth of Heidelberg”. The essay ...