ABSTRACT
Max Weber's scope of interest in institutional problems, was, however, exceedingly broad, and a substantial part of his work was centered on the field of political institutions, particularly in their relations to the economic order and to other aspects of the social structure. Weber was directly concerned with the relation of religious movements to the basic attitudes and institutional patterns involved in economic activities. To Weber, a fundamental feature of all complex systems of human relationships was the element of authority, the fact that a minority of men are put in a position of ability to control the action to an appreciable degree and in a variety of respects, of the great majority. The variation, which is in certain respects the key to Weber's dynamic analysis, he analyzed in terms of a classification of three basic types of structure of authority, what he called "rational-legal" authority, "traditional" authority and "charismatic" authority.
