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Weber argued that the origin of the social sciences was practical: it was a technique. But later, when it assumed the character of an academic science, the distinction between existential knowledge ("what is") and normative knowledge ("what should be") was blurred. In a newspaper in which he participated, Weber will distinguish three levels of economics: a) what is strictly economic is the institutions created for an economic purpose, such as a bank or a factory, b) what is related to the economic, for example religion, which it does not directly manifest an economic character, but it has consequences of that type, and c) what is conditioned by the economic, such as art.
To address the issue, we have summarized the essentials of "Max Weber: Comprehensive Sociology", by Norberto Ivancich and José Luis Lens.