Those human groups that
entertain a subjective belief in
their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization
and migration; this belief must be important for group
formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.


Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (ed. Univ of California Press, 1978) - ISBN: 9780520035003

Max Weber Quotes

Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or...

Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or...

Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or...

Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or...