Max Weber and the Legacy of Political Economy

Abstract

Weber approached the analysis of class within capitalist society primarily from the point of view of distributive and market-interactive processes. While the particularity of Weber’s sociology, especially in so far as it derives from his neo-Kantian epistemology, should not be minimised, it is also important to stress that his account of class structure has precedents within and is, like much sociological work in this area, inseparable from a wider background of economic thought.