In one posthumously published work, this thinker distinguishes between four orientations of social action: traditional, affectual, value-rational, and instrumentally rational.
In one posthumously published work, this thinker distinguishes between four orientations of social action: traditional, affectual, value-rational, and instrumentally rational. He advocated the "analytical accentuation of certain elements of reality" in his essay "'Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy," in which he laid out his methodological concept of the "ideal type." This author of Economy and Society gave a lecture that implicates the titular activity in the "disenchantment of the world." Another lecture distinguishes between an ethics of (*) conviction and an ethics of responsibility and posits a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force in a famous definition of "the State." This author bemoaned the "iron cage" of rationalization in a more famous work discussing the doctrine of predestination. For 10 points, name this German sociologist and author of "Science as a Vocation," "Politics as a Vocation," and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
In one posthumously published work, this thinker distinguishes between four orientations of social action: traditional, affectual, value-rational, and instrumentally rational.
Max Weber 