ABSTRACT
In some respects, the social and political thought of Max Weber has never been
surpassed. As a sociologist, the breadth of his knowledge and the scope of his analyses,
his historical and comparative focus, expand our understanding of social life in a way that
goes far beyond the more modest scholarship of contemporary sociology. Weber remains
a truly foundational scholar whose work continues not only to generate new research and
scholarship but stands at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of
His represents one of the most important voices of modernity and on modernity.
However, there is good reason to consider this voice masculine, masculinist and
patriarchal: masculine, because it unself-consciously expresses idea(l)s and values that
