Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Introduction; The Author and His Career; Weber's Methodology of Social Science; Weber's 'Economic Sociology'; The Institutionalization of Authority; The Modern Western Institutional System; IThe Fundamental Concepts of Sociology; II Sociological Categories of Economic Action; III The Types of Authority and Imperative Co ordination; X REPRESENTATION; IV Social Stratification and Class Structure; Index