Part A. Ideological conflict and scholarly commitment. -- Weber's generational rebellion and maturation. -- "Value-neutrality" in Germany and the United States. -- Political critiques. -- Ideological and scholarly. -- Sociology and the distrust of reason. -- Part B. Comparative studies of authority and ligitimation. -- Sociological typology and historical explanation. -- Bureaucracy. -- Personal rulership, patrimonialism, and empire-building. -- Charismatic leadership. -- Japan and the Protestant ethic. -- The comparative analysis of historical change. -- Part C. Predecessors and peers. -- The historical relationship to Marxism. -- The genesis of the typological approach. -- Jacob Burckhardt. -- Two sociological traditions. -- The Protestant ethic -- revisited