Stephen Kalberg is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, and an authority on Max Weber. He has written a more comprehensive scholarly work, Max Weber and the Sociology of Civilizations, edited a collection of Weber's writings, and translated Weber¿s classic work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Kalberg is a recipient of the ASA Theory Section¿s annual award for a study called" The Rationalization of Action in Max Weber¿s Sociology of Religion."