Sublime

These types fall roughly along the lines described by Weber: the rational and expressive dimensions. In the rational dimension, one finds a rational-economic man (Homo economicus) and a rational-ethical man (following in the tradition of a Kantian ethical imperative),7 while in the expressive dimension, one finds an antimodernist, mystical type

By 1956, the sociologist William H. Whyte saw a “decline of the Protestant ethic” and the rise of “the organization man,” for whom conformity was prized over initiative.