A biographical view -- Political concerns -- Intellectual orientations -- Politics as a vocation -- Science as a vocation -- Structures of power -- Class, status party -- Bureaucracy -- The sociology of charismatic authority -- The meaning of discipline -- The social psychology of the world religions -- The protestant sects and the spirit of capitalism -- Religious rejections of the world and their directions -- Capitalism and rural society in Germany -- National character and the junkers -- India : the Brahman and the castes -- The Chinese literati.