Who is Max Weber from The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution and what is their importance?

Max Weber was a sociologist who argued that religion was not a construct of political rulers intended to subdue the ruled, but was instead a primary motivator of social identity and human action. Weber wrote a work called "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" which, Fukuyama explains, claimed that modern ways of looking at political development as stemming from economic development is a result of the individualistic ideals that arose during the Protestant Reformation. In other words, our view of the past rests on assumptions which are based on our current beliefs, which color our interpretation. Weber argued it was necessary to look at a state's religious views in order to fully understand its economic development.