Max Weber
- Jurist
- Max Weber
- School
- Sociology of Law
- Father of
- Modern Sociology of Law
- Theory
- Sociology of Law; three types of legitimate authority (traditional, charismatic, rational-legal); ideal type of formal rational legality and modern bureaucracy.
- Quote
The rationality of law in western societies is a result of the rationalism of western culture.
- Books
Economy and Society, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Propounded
Three types of legitimate authority (traditional, charismatic, rational-legal); formal-rational legality; ideal type of modern bureaucracy
- Born
- 1864
- Died
- 1920
- Portrait
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