ABSTRACT
We have seen how Weber’s account of the rationalization process provides a basis for understanding rationalization since his time. But it can be no part of the sociology of organization to claim that Weber has provided a permanent canon for interpreting the ongoing present. He uniquely, compared with others, gained the measure of his own time and of trends which persisted for decades, because as many have recognized he was in tune with central themes of modernity. But modernity has lost its centrality in the shaping of our time.
