Essays in Economic SociologyPrinceton University Press, 1999 M09 5 - 314 pages The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus. |
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... Categories of Economic Action 199 SEVENTEEN The Area of Economics , Economic Theory , and the Ideal Type 242 EIGHTEEN Marginal Utility Analysis and “ The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics " 249 GLOSSARY Key Concepts in Weber's Economic ...
... Categories of In- terpretive Sociology " ( 1913 ) .11 It was here , for the first time , that Weber pre- sented a program for what a rigorous sociology should be like . Sociology , he sug- gested , should be a science of social action ...
... categories covers economic phe- nomena in a strict sense , such as economic events and economic institutions ; and Weber has little to say about this category except that it includes phenomena " the economic aspects of which constitute ...
... Categories of Social Science " ( summer term , 1919 ) , " Outline of Universal Social and Economic History " ( winter term , 1919-20 ) , " Socialism " ( summer term , 1920 ) and " Gen- eral Theory of the State and Politics : Sociology ...
... Categories of Economic Action , " since the reader gets to see how Weber applies his concepts to historical material . Many of the concepts that Weber uses in the General Economic History , it may be pointed out , come directly from his ...
Contents
Modern Capitalism Key Characteristics and Key Institutions | 43 |
The Spirit of Capitalism | 52 |
The Market | 75 |
The Beginnings of the Firm | 80 |
Class Status and Party | 83 |
CAPITALISM LAW AND POLITICS | 97 |
The Three Types of Legitimate Domination | 99 |
The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy | 109 |
The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit | 157 |
The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism | 168 |
Kinship and Capitalism in China | 179 |
The Caste System in India | 185 |
Charity in Ancient Palestine | 189 |
THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY | 197 |
Sociological Categories of Economic Action | 199 |
The Area of Economics Economic Theory and the Ideal Type | 242 |
The Rational State and Its Legal System | 116 |
The National State and Economic Policy Freiburg Address | 120 |
The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization | 138 |
CAPITALISM CULTURE AND RELIGION | 155 |