How we gain "status" (who is "cool" or respected).
He feared that this focus on "efficiency" would eventually strip away our individual meaning, leaving us as "specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart." Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive...
Weber was the one who realized that in a modern society, your boss doesn't rule you because they are "chosen by God" (traditional authority) or because they are "superhuman" (charismatic authority). They rule because of —the rules on the paper say they can. How we gain "status" (who is "cool" or respected)