How we gain "status" (who is "cool" or respected).
If the book were a movie, the protagonist would be and the antagonist would be the Human Spirit . Weber was obsessed with how the modern world was moving away from "enchanted" things (like tradition and magic) toward a cold, efficient "iron cage" of bureaucracy. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive...
He famously broke down how society works into three main layers: How we organize resources. 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." leaving us as "specialists without spirit