Max Weber

Max Weber (1864–1920) was a German sociologist, writer and economic thinker who studied how authority, religion, bureaucracy and economic conduct shape modern life. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism traces an affinity between disciplined religious vocations and capitalist habits without reducing history to a single cause. Economy and Society develops a broad vocabulary for social action, legitimate rule, status, class and bureaucracy. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology gathers key arguments on politics, religion and institutions, while General Economic History follows labour, enterprise and markets across long periods. Weber's analysis joins meaning to organization: motives matter, but they operate inside durable structures of power. Economy and Society offers the widest conceptual map; The Protestant Ethic provides a more concentrated demonstration of his comparative historical method.