Introduction to Max Weber's Economy and Society -- Overview of Chapter One -- 1. Basic Sociological Concepts -- Overview of Chapter Two -- 2. Basic Sociological Categories of Economic Action -- Overview of Chapter Three -- 3. Types of Rule -- Overview of Chapter Four -- 4. Social Ranks and...

Max Weber was the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century; Economy and Society is Weber's most famous work after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It consists of diverse essays that Weber was working on at the time of his death in 1920, ranging over subjects in...