A search for the essay online shows that it’s meant to be an introductory social science text for undergrads. This explains why it’s not written with the expectation that it will have to present arguments. It’s good enough for Brodie to say “such and such writer was very important, but another writer disagrees.” It doesn’t do the work of properly explicating theoretical disagreements between thinkers, because that’s not the goal.

Your professor is gripped by what Friere called the “banking model” of education, wherein the job of the teacher is to simply deposit information into students so it can be retrieved later. I think you’re fine to just tell them “I am aware of the existence of Weber. He’s wrong.”