Person
Max Weber
Sociologist of bureaucracy, authority types, rationalization, and the iron cage of modern institutions.
Why this matters
Weber's authority and bureaucracy frames appear wherever scale, procedure, and legitimacy interact.
Works2 sources
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Vol. 1. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
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Politics as a Vocation.
Weber, Max. "Politics as a Vocation." In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, 77–128. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946.
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