Philip Smith Brings the Cultural Turn to Weber's Political Sociology

Philip Smith brings the cultural turn to Weber's political sociology. In particular…

A) Smith critiqued Weber's concept of legal-rational authority. He argued that modern societies are legal-rational in appearance, but in fact are deeply antirational.
B) Smith argued that it is cultural structures, binary cultural codes, which distinguish charisma in modern society. Charisma is constructed by not only representing the leader's sacred qualities, but also by identifying a symbolic threat to a given society.
C) Smith agrees with Weber that modern political life is anti-charismatic, but he thinks it can still be analyzed in cultural terms.
D) Smith does not bring the cultural turn to Weber's work. Smith is not interested in culture.
E) None of the above