<b>Profession and teaching according to Max Weber

Abstract

The theory of professions according to Max Weber (1864-1920), who conceives bureaucratization as a necessity and as an expression of the modern State, is analyzed. The process of teaching professionalization in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries is focused. Current paper deals with three aspects: 1^st – profession, craft, occupation: etymology, conceptualization and contexts; 2^nd – Max Weber: biography and his theory on professions in the modern world; 3^rd – Is there a Weberian understanding on the teaching profession? Professions developed throughout the 19^th century and Weber’s theory arose in the early 20^th century. Current investigation on the teaching profession focuses on the relationships between teaching and the historic and educational aspects which the teaching profession took during the 20^th century as a result of the rational objectivity developed by the State. His reflections about professions reveal that professional groups are formed by political, economic, and social strategies, with special emphasis on the role of the State as a regulator for homogeneity and regularity in political and administrative terms.