ABSTRACT
For much of the past hundred years, Max Weber has been regarded as one of the most famous and influential thinkers in sociology. However, during this time, his role as one of the founders of the new discipline of economic sociology has mostly gone unnoticed. Even today his economic sociology remains relatively ignored despite the fact that his famous work has the title Economy and Society (Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft). One may be inclined to discount this on the grounds that Weber never saw the work in the form that we have now and that its title was never chosen by him. However, it was intended to be a part of the series that he was editing under his title Outline of Social Economics (Grundriss der Sozialökonomik). And, much of his work was focused on the junction of society and economics—hence social economics. The purpose of this chapter is an attempt to rectify this by providing an account of Weber’s economic sociology.
