Sam Whimster (ed.)

The Essential Weber

A Reader
Herausgeber: Whimster, Sam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Selected by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, this book introduces his work to a new generation of readers. With many readings being specially translated for this collection, Weber speaks anew in the idiom of the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 815g
• ISBN-13: 9780415244268
• ISBN-10: 0415244269
• Artikelnr.: 21770806

Autorenporträt

Sam Whimster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Max Weber Part 1: Comparing Civilizations and the Origins
of Modernity Introduction to Part 1 1. Puritanism and the Spirit of
Capitalism 2. Confucianism and Puritanism Compared 3. Introduction to the
Economic Ethics of World Religions 4. Religions of Civilization and their
Attitude to the World 5. Prefatory Remarks to the Collected Essays in the
Sociology of Religion Further reading Part 2: Structures of Power and
Stratification Introduction to Part 2 6. Politics and the State 7. The
Three Pure Types of Legitimate Rule 8. The Nation 9. The Belief in Common
Ethnicity 10. The Household Community 11. Capitalism in Antiquity 12. The
Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Accounting 13. Status
Groups and Classes 14. The Distribution of Power in Society: Classes,
status groups and parties 15. Parties Further Reading Part 3: The Dilemmas
of Modernity Introduction to Part 3 16. Intermediate Reflection on the
Economic Ethics of World Religions 17. Bureaucracy: Characteristics of
modern bureaucracy; the technical superiority of bureaucratic organization
over administration by notables 18. Formal and Substantive Rationalization:
The general conditions of legal formalism 19. The Vocation of Politics 20.
The Vocation of Science Further reading Part 4: Methodology of the Social
Sciences Introduction to Part 4 21. Basic Sociological Concepts 22. The
'Objectivity' of Knowledge in the Social and Policy Sciences Further
Reading