Max Weber is one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century and one of the leading modern thinkers who has left a clear mark on the path of sociological thought from the beginning of the last century until today.
The most important feature to be observed in Max Weber's philosophical and scientific personality is his work on the combination of rationality and religion. His whole philosophy is based on trying to reconcile the two principles, Weber derived the principles of rational thinking from the intellectual life he lived in his home, where he was the meeting of the most important thinkers of Germany at that time because his father was a political man, businessman and lawyer And a deputy in parliament.
Since his youth, Weber has been listening to the intellectual debates that took place in his father's salon among leading thinkers on the topics of history, thought and modernity, economics, politics, modernization, etc
It seems that the intellectual momentum that Weber experienced was inspired by the rational approach he used in his social philosophy. The idea that rationalism is the most prominent manifestation of modernity is reflected in Max Weber, The emergence of modernity into the active role of the liberal capitalist project and the institutionalized administration of bureaucracy as rational institutions led to the rationalization of the economic and social process, because there is an intimate internal relationship between modernity and rationality, and rationality has become institutionalized in economics and management. , It also included the entire Western community.