Max Weber is the most distinguished sociologist of modern times. He died in 1920, leaving behind him a considerable amount of material, which has been assembled in volumes of collected essays on politics, methodology, general sociology, and the sociology of religion. Now, in the volume before us, H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills have produced a translation of a further selection from his work, preceded by an illuminating introduction ...Instructive and a great intellectual pleasure.' - The Listener