Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society

Tony Waters is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico, USA. He is the author of Schooling, Bureaucracy, and Childhood: Bureaucratizing the Child (2012), When Killing is a Crime (2007), Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan (2001), and other books. He has taught as a Guest Professor at Leuphana University, Germany, and Zeppelin University, Germany. Dagmar Waters is Lecturer in the Teaching International Languages Program at California State University, Chico, USA. She is a graduate of Cologne University, Germany, where she majored in Education and Geography. She has taught in Tanzania, Germany, and the United States.

1. Max Weber's Sociology in the 21st Century 2. Max Weber's Writing as a Product of World War I Europe 3. Translation Notes—Special Highlighted Terms in Weber's Sociological Writings 4. The Distribution of Power Within the Gemeinschaft: Classes, Stände, Parties 5. Discipline and Charisma 6. Bureaucracy 7. Politics as Vocation