As we have seen, the broad trend in the cultural sociology of Weber and Simmel lay in their attempts to theorise the developments of a specific domain of culture intrinsic to modernity. In Weber's case, culture was linked with social change, generating values which, once internalised by agents, led to the necessary motivations for particular modes of social action. For Weber, culture was bound up with the production and communication of meanings; it was an active, living process. As Clifford Geertz has noted, Weber conceives of man as "an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun", with culture consisting of those webs in which the analysis is "not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning" (Geertz, 1973, p. 5). However, what should be added to Geertz's formulation is that Weber's cultural sociology goes beyond a narrowly focused semiotics, basing itself on broad historical transformations and, more particularly, on the pathologies of modernity.