Max Weber's Economy and society : a critical companion
Max Weber's Economy and Society is widely considered the most important single work in sociology and among the most important in the history of the social sciences. This volume provides a critical and up-to-date introduction to Weber's magnum opus. While much has been published about the various parts of Economy and Society, this is the first book to cover all of its major sections and themes, as well as to discuss the methodological vision that unites them. In Max Weber's Economy and Society, a distinguished group of scholars illuminates the central arguments of Economy and Society and appraises their contemporary relevance for the analysis of the economy, the polity, law, religion, and social action. With essays that are both theoretical and empirical, this book will be of interest to those already familiar with Weber's work and to those encountering it for the first time. -- Publisher
Print Book, English, 2005
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2005
Textbooks (form)
xii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
9780804747165, 9780804747172, 0804747164, 0804747172
54952945
Introduction / Charles Camic, Philip S. Gorski, and David M. Trubek
Part I. Contextual and Textual Background: Max Weber, Scion of the Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie: Historical Context and Present-Day Relevance / Guenther Roth
Economy and Society and the Revision of Weber's Ethics / Harvey Goldman
Max Weber's "Grand Sociology": The Origins and Composition of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Soziologie / Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Part II. The Textual Core: The Continuing Challenge of Weber's Theory of Rational Action / Donald Levine
Max Weber's Economic Sociology: the centerpiece of Economy and Society? / Richard Swedberg
Democracy, Domination and Legitimacy in Max Weber's Political Thought / Regina Titunik
Religious Communities and the path to disenchantment: the origins, sources, and theoretical core of the religion section / Hans G. Kippenberg
Part III. Critical Perspectives: Beyond Weberian Action Theory / Mustafa Emirbayer
The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber's Class Analysis / Erik Olin Wright
The Rule of the Father: Patriarchy and Patrimonialism in Early Modern Europe / Julia Adams
The Protestant Ethic and the Bureaucratic Revolution: Ascetic Protestantism and Administrative Rationalization in Early Modern Europe / Philip S. Gorski
Weber and the Sociology of Revolution / Randall Collins
The Disenchantment of Logically Formal Legal Rationality: Or, Max Weber's Sociology in the Genealogy of the Contemporary Mode of Western Legal Thought / Duncan Kennedy
Max Weber and the Origin of Human Rights: A Study of Cultural Innovation / Hans Joas