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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... Ancient Civilization 138 PART III : CAPITALISM , CULTURE , AND RELIGION 155 ELEVEN The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit 157 TWELVE The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism 168 THIRTEEN Kinship and Capitalism in China 179 ...
Max Weber Richard Swedberg. FOURTEEN The Caste System in India 185 FIFTEEN Charity in Ancient Palestine 189 PART IV : THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 197 SIXTEEN Sociological Categories of Economic Action 199 SEVENTEEN The Area ...
... Ancient Civilizations , which can be characterized as a social and economic history of antiquity . Around the time when Weber was working on his history of antiquity , he also helped to found the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Soziologie ...
... Ancient Civilization , " Journal of General Ed- ucation 5 ( 1949-51 ) : 75-88 ( reproduced in this volume as reading 10 ) ; The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations ( London : New Left Books , 1976 ) . The latter work is a much ...
... Ancient Civilizations , the original title of which , Agrarver- haltnisse im Altertum ( Agrarian Conditions in Antiquity ) , does not in fact refer to sociology . It was also during the 1903-9 period that Weber for the first time used ...
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 |