Weber pondered the apparently inescapable explansion of private and public bureaucracy,with its links to the pervasiveness of educational qualifications and credentials.He struggled with the implications of mass politics for the liberal tradition.He asked himself about the prospects for the autonomous individual in the rationalized environment of modernity. He pondered the relationship between scientific konwledge and human values in a past-religious world. And he sought to redefine the role of the intellectual in a pluralistic and democratic society.
Altogether , Weber was surely the most important social thinker of our time.
--Frintz Ringer:Max Weber: an intellectual biography
韦伯思考着显然无法逃避的个体公共官僚制的膨胀，以及与之相关的教育文凭的泛滥。他为自由传统与公众政治带来的影响作斗争。他问自己，关于在理性化现代环境下自治个体的可能性。他在后宗教时代思考着科学知识和人类价值的关系。他探求在一个多元民主的社会中重新定义知识分子。
总而言之，毋庸置疑，韦伯是我们这个时代最重要的社会思想家。
我喜欢韦伯或许正在于此。他思考着我们这个时代最深刻的问题，关乎我们作为人的价值和尊严。