Max Weber's manifesto in economic sociology

While references are often made to Weber's economic sociology, it is not co mmonly known that Weber himself only applied the term economic sociology (W irtschaftssoziologic) to one of his writings, namely to Chapter 2 in Part 1 of Economy and Society, "Sociological Categories of Economic Action". This text, as I show, has basically been ignored in the huge secondary literatu re that exists on Weber's work as well as by economic sociologists. It repr esents, however, a very important contribution to Weber's work in economic sociology; indeed, it can be said to constitute Weber's manifesto in econom ic sociology "Sociological Categories of Economic Action" is presented and discussed, and an effort is made to make this difficult text accessible as well as to show that it contains some extremely interesting material in eco nomic sociology.