tics have dismissed claims that Weber is one of the foremost founding fathers of sociology because of the comprehensive nature of his theories. As Tribe notes, "Far from being a 'founding father' of sociology, Weber has been shown to be a figure whose work belongs as much to classical political theory as to a more modern consideration of social and economic structures and processes."
At the same time that the social and intellectual contexts of Weber's work are being debated, a comparable number of other critical scholars, Wolfgang J. Mommsen among them, have noted a recent renewal of interest in Weber's theories. As Mommsen observes in his Max Weber and His Contemporaries, "In recent years ther
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