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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... CAPITALISM ONE Modern Capitalism : Key Characteristics and Key Institutions TWO The Spirit of Capitalism THREE The Market FOUR The Beginnings of the Firm FIVE Class , Status , and Party PART II : CAPITALISM , LAW , AND POLITICS SIX vii ...
... capitalism . At this stage of his thinking , Weber was looking at capital- ism in its earliest form , especially in antiquity , and also how it evolved in the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages . That Protestantism had played an im ...
... capitalism as existing only in modern times but argued that it also could be found much earlier , especially in antiquity . In those early days , however , a different kind of capitalism existed , more precisely one that was centered on ...
... CAPITALISM economic form middle ascetic Protestantism ascetic bourgeois strata ( reinforced through vocational the sect ) ethic spirit of capitalism Luther's concept of vocation ( Beruf ) Figure 2. The Contribution of Ascetic ...
... capitalism ( see fig . 3 ) . Weber's understanding of so- cial economics comes out most clearly in the first of the book's five major parts , 58 According to Weber , most religions demand a certain type of behavior from the believer but ...
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 |