ABSTRACT
Of the three major founding fathers of modern sociology, Max Weber’s contribution is arguably the most influential. Like Marx, the work of Weber encompasses more than sociology, extending across philosophy, religion, law, economics, politics and history. But unlike Marx, Weber did not produce a coherent doctrine of theories or develop a systematic philosophy of political action. Thus there is no ‘Weberism’, but a rather loosely integrated set of ideas, clustered around a few major themes, but not organized into a theoretical system. At times this makes Weber’s theories seem frustratingly oblique and incomplete.
