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This thinker claimed that his discipline should concern itself with the "interpretive understanding of social action" in a work in which he asserted that his thought was based on hypothetical "ideal types." This author, who was first translated into English by his disciple Talcott Parsons, claimed that bureaucracy could trap humankind in an (*) "iron cage of rationality." This author defined the state as the entity that claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in his Politics as a Vocation. In another work, he argued that the work habits of Calvinists helped give rise to modern economics. For 10 points, name this author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
This thinker claimed that his discipline should concern itself with the "interpretive understanding of social action" in a work in which he asserted that his thought was based on hypothetical "ideal types.
Max Weber [or Maximilian Karl Emil Weber]