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the man who explained why your job feels like a cage, then called capitalism a religion in disguise.
means a german sociologist who founded modern sociology by explaining how authority, bureaucracy, and religion shape economic life.
from born 1864 in erfurt, prussia, into a household split between a pleasure-loving politician father and an ascetic calvinist mother — a tension he spent his career theorizing.
protestant ethicargued calvinist guilt accidentally invented capitalism.
iron cagewarned bureaucracy would trap us in meaningless efficiency.
nervous breakdownsuffered years of collapse, barely wrote 1897 to 1903.
charisma coinergave social science its term for magnetic leadership.
for instance
the protestant ethic — 1905 book linking calvinism to the rise of capitalism.
economy and society — unfinished masterwork published posthumously in 1922.
politics as a vocation — 1919 lecture defining the state as monopoly on legitimate violence.