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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... Status , and Party PART II : CAPITALISM , LAW , AND POLITICS SIX vii 3 41 43 52 75 80 83 97 * 2 2 8 8 58 99 The Three Types of Legitimate Domination SEVEN The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy 109 EIGHT The Rational State ...
... status of a master science , " Guenther Roth has noted , " yet by 1910 Weber accepted the term ' sociology ' for his interpretive study of social action as well as his comparative approach . " 10 Around this time Weber also laid the ...
... Status Groups and Classes , State ) , " and " Economy and Culture ( Critique of Historical Materialism ) . " Weber had also assigned to himself a number of other topics , presumably to fill in where he could not find a suitable writer ...
... Status Groups , Classes , Parties , The Nation , " " 8. Domination [ Die Herrschaft ] : a ) The Three Types of Legitimate Domination ; b ) Polit- ical and Hierocratic Domination ; c ) Nonlegitimate Domination : The Typology of Cities ...
... Status , and Party . " As in the reading on the market , Weber here discusses the dynamics of class ver- sus status ; the former being centered around production and " life chances , " and the latter around consumption and " honor ...
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 |