Sociology must have to look into the factors responsible for the growth of legal-rational capitalism in west and search for the presence or absence of these factors in east where capitalism is yet to make its appearance. It must have to look into the essential preconditions responsible for the growth of the emergent nature of capitalism that Weber defines as legal-rational capitalism. It must have to analyze the similarities and differences between various forms of capitalism. It must make an attempt to understand various forms of capitalism present in the history of different societies. Weber advocates that it is not sociologically important to conclude whether capitalism is good or bad, human or anti-human rather sociology must have to study the essence of capitalism.
But Karl Marx considers capitalism as evil to humanity. Durkheim believes that capitalism otherwise known as modern society is all prepared to manifest itself in the face of the millions. The fundamental concern of Weber stands different from Durkheim on the ground that Durkheim on the ground that Durkheim is sensitive to collective human effort which has given way to the growth of modern society, complex form of division of labor, mass production and regulation of individual behavior through the enforcement of restitive sanctions. The foundation of sociology is to transform sociology into a descriptive and interpretative discipline abandoning the idea that sociology is a discipline prescriptive in character. The concern of sociology is not to explain what history ought to be rather sociology must address variabilities in the history of capitalism, history of religion, history of democracy and so on. It can be made in any form in any manner with any possible content and change. In his theory of Protestant Ethics and Spirit of capitalism Weber intends to advocate that may be the history of capitalism or it is the history of democracy or even it is the history of religion all of them are just like clean sheets of paper in which the human actions necessarily its imprint meaning history is not predetermined.
He never feels at home with the observation of any of his predecessors thus makes an attempt to study the structural essence of different world religions- Hinduism, Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Catholicism and Calvinism. Weber makes an attempt to study religion and its role in modern society.
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