1.  relationship between politics and intellectual thought

     2. identify the origins of essential characteristics of modern society

     3.  people self-interests lead to actions, importance of goals and values to society

    4.  Social action: 1. means-ends rationality
        2.  value rationality
        3.  affectual action (emotional state)
        4.  traditional - custom

    5.  Causality – probability of sequence,  Inter-relationships

Key concepts:

    Verstehen – interpretive understanding

    Ideal types - abstract concept -
        necessary properties derived from concrete instances.

    legitimacy - notion of power as right and proper.

    power - authority: charismatic (personal qualities) , traditional (legitimated by custom) and rational-legal (formal rules)
   
    Bureaucracy -  organized around documents and rules

    Rationalization – formalized codified procedures

    Protestant ethic  - Calling

    Class/ status/ party =  class - economic position , status groups -  shared mode of life, party- an association to secure political power

    Patterns & regularities

    Iron cage

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