Put another way, for Weber, in modernity, on the one hand, all meaning is revealed as made rather than discovered, and values are at once consummately important yet ultimately undecidable.

As the sociologist Max Weber argued in his 1921 classic "Economy and Society," bureaucrats represent a set of critical ideals: upholding expert knowledge, promoting equal treatment and serving others.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But bureaucrats have historically stood for something else entirely. As the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But bureaucrats have historically stood for something else entirely. As the ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But bureaucrats have historically stood for something else entirely. As the ...