ABSTRACT
Heidelberg had been Max Weber’s home for most of his active career, though during most of his creative period he did not teach. Although a private scholar, he had become a very dominant influence in the intellectual community of Heidelberg. Pareto was also a particularly important figure for the author project, because he was both an economic theorist in his own right and a sociologist. Weber had been a professor of economics, even though his doctorate was taken in jurisprudence and most of his work was considered sociological and historical. The fact that he was trained as a lawyer, in addition to doing sociology, is highly relevant to this problem orientation, because concern with what is meant by rational action has been very central to each of these fields of thought. Now the sociology of the professions, the sociology of family and kinship and the study of the socialization process all form a complex.
