Economy And Society: An Outline Of Interpretive... Review

How we gain "status" (who is "cool" or respected).

When Max Weber died of the Spanish flu in 1920, the book didn't actually exist. He left behind a massive pile of unorganized manuscripts—some nearly finished, others just dense shorthand notes. His wife, , spent years painstakingly piecing them together. She published the first version in 1922, but because Weber hadn't left a "table of contents," the structure we read today is essentially an educated guess by his editors. The Core Conflict: Rationalization Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive...

Weber was the one who realized that in a modern society, your boss doesn't rule you because they are "chosen by God" (traditional authority) or because they are "superhuman" (charismatic authority). They rule because of —the rules on the paper say they can. How we gain "status" (who is "cool" or respected)