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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... economy , and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into ... Society 16 ( 1988 ) : 387-401 ; and Steven N. S. Cheung , " On the New In ... economic history as well as to economic sociology . INTRODUCTION.
... Economy and Society constitutes Weber's own contribution to the handbook . By the time of his death in 1920 Weber had com- pleted only Part I of Economy and Society , consisting of four chapters including a key text on economic ...
... economic theory , for example , " offers us an ideal picture of events on the commodity market under conditions of society organized on the principles of an exchange economy , free competition and rigorously rational con- duct . " 50 ...
... economic " is given to certain phenomena II . ECONOMICALLY RELEVANT PHENOMENA Phenomena which are not in them- selves of ... Economy and Society ( London : Routledge , 1989 ) ; Christopher Prendergast , " Alfred Schutz and the Austrian ...
... economic theory . This is the suggestion that marginal utility works so well as an analytical tool because we live in a capitalist society . The " histori- cal peculiarity of the capitalist epoch , " Weber says , is that there exists an ...
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 |