Key elements of John Searle’s articulation of the Standard Model of Social Ontology can be found within Max Weber’s ideal type of legal-rational authority. However, the fact that, for Weber, legal-rational authority is just one of three types of legitimate authority, along with traditional and charismatic authority, suggests limitations to the Standard Model’s scope of applicability. Where Searle takes himself to have provided an account of “the structure of human civilization,” Weber’s taxonomy suggests that Searle has only given us an account of a way of being a civilization. This understanding of traditional authority also reveals why the Standard Model misconstrues the structure of ordinary, informal statuses, such as friendship.

约翰·塞尔（John Searle）阐述社会本体标准模型的关键要素可以在马克斯·韦伯（Max Weber）理想的法律理性权威类型中找到。但是，对于Weber而言，法律理性授权只是合法授权与传统授权和魅力型授权的三种类型之一，这表明对标准模型的适用范围有所限制。塞尔（Searle）认为自己提供了“人类文明的结构”的地方，韦伯（Weber）的分类法表明，塞尔（Searle）仅给了我们一种成为文明的方式的说明。对传统权威的这种理解也揭示了为什么标准模型错误地解释了诸如友谊之类的普通，非正式身份的结构。