Stephen Kalberg is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Boston University and a Local Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Max Weber's Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology, The Social Thought of Max Weber, Searching for the Spirit of American Democracy: Max Weber's Analysis of a Unique Political Culture, and Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today. He is also the editor of Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity and the translator of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.