He distinguished between actions whose methods were rational and actions whose ends were rational, deeming them procedural and value-oriented rationality.
Alan Sica argued that this thinker's inability to comprehend why peasants opposed beneficial reforms by the Junkers drove many of his early works in a book about him, irrationality, and social order. He distinguished between actions whose methods were rational and actions whose ends were rational, deeming them procedural and value-oriented rationality. He argued that modern society had come to be dominated by procedural rationality, thus leaving those who questioned those actions' goals as trapped in an (*) "iron cage." He distinguished between traditional, legal, and charismatic types of authority, and he outlined three bases for the existence of the state in "Politics as a Vocation." In his best known work, he linked the rise of enterprises to the belief systems spawned by the Reformation. For 10 points, name this German sociologist, the author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Alan Sica argued that this thinker's inability to comprehend why peasants opposed beneficial reforms by the Junkers drove many of his early works in a book about him, irrationality, and social order.
Max Weber