Max Weber139 definitions
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An Act (n.) is distinguished from mere animal behavior on the basis of consciousness, reflection, intention, purpose, and meaning.
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Action theory (n.) is the idea that actions are grounded in the following fourfold: 1. Tradition (i.e. our people have always done it like this), 2. Affect (I.E it is emotionally satisfying), 3. Value-orientation (i.e. It is the right thing to do)... and 4. Instrumental reasoning (i.e. It is the most effective way to achieve a certain end).
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Art (n.) is, in modernity, at its greatest as an intimate, personal, situational form rather than as monumental because in modern times, only in personal human situations does the prophetic pneuma pulse while in former times it swept through the great communities like a firebrand, welding them together.
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Asceticism (n.) is proto-rational conduct.
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Authority (n.) is power that is institutionalized and seen as legitimate by the members of a collectivity.
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Authority (n.) is the exercise of power when it is regarded by people as legitimate.
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Bureaucracy (n.) does not offer efficiency as such, but the reduction of uncertainty through the rational application of rules.
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Bureaucracy (n.) develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional.
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Bureaucracy (n.) is a significant threat to democracy because even the master of politics stands as an utter 'dilettante' opposite the 'expert'.
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Bureaucracy (n.) is a system of administration associated with a high degree of specialization and a clearly defined division of labour, with tasks distributed as official duties.
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Bureaucracy (n.) is opposed to democracy in spite and perhaps because of its unavoidable yet unintended promotion of nothing other than bureaucratization.
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Bureaucracy (n.) is the triumph of instrumental rationality over substantive rationality... that is the triumph of pure means over (debates over) ends, of facts over (attention to) values, of administration over (debate within) politics, of certainty over (explorations of plurality), of outputs over (discussions over) outcomes.
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The Bureaucrat (n.) is armed against the politician with the 'official secret' 'the specific invention of bureaucracy, and nothing is so fanatically defended by the bureaucracy as this attitude'.
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Capitalism (n.) is, among early protestants, an expression of virtue and proficiency in a calling. For individuals like benjamin franklin it is not mere business astuteness, but an ethos, an ethic, a sign of virtue.
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Capitalism (n.) is not simply about wealth accumulation. It is the triumph of rationality over tradition, reflecting an ethos of the disciplined virtue of the spendthrift.
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Capitalism (n.) is not imposed upon the ordinary man by the superstructure but it came from him and is therefore a reflection of him.
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Capitalism (n.) is the ascetic spirit stripped from its religious origins. Business became reverence without responsibility, and the unsuccessful came to stand in for those poor in the right kind of spirituality.
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Charismatic authority (n.) is an individual's ability to exercise domination on the basis of personal and superhuman or supernatural qualities.
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Christianity (n.) is a salvation religion, which is to say, it is active and demanding of continuous struggles to be 'saved' by converting to certain principles and vying against sin and the negative aspects of society.