"Sociology... is a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a c…"

"For the purposes of a typological scientific analysis it is convenient to treat all irrational, affectually determine…"

"Social action, like all action, may be oriented in four ways. It may be:"

"The term "social relationship” will be used to denote the behavior of a plurality of actors insofar as, in its meanin…"

"The continual utilization and procurement of goods, whether through production or exchange, by an economic unit for p…"

"Soweit es sich hier um „Paria"-Intellektualismus handelt, ... beruht dessen Intensität darauf, daß die außerhalb oder…"

"Men differ in … social status. … Simple observation shows that in every such situation he who is more favored feels t…"

"Every highly privileged group develops the myth of its natural, especially its blood, superiority. Under conditions o…"

"Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is "dehumanized," the more completely it succeeds in eliminating…"

"The principles of office hierarchy and of levels of graded authority mean a firmly ordered system of super- and subor…"