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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... traditional charac- ter ( see fig . 2 ) . By " traditional , " Weber means in this context that capitalism was not very systematic and also that the goal for the individual merchant , as well as the individual laborer , was primarily to ...
Max Weber Richard Swedberg. TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM upper bourgeois strata economic form traditional spirit MODERN RATIONAL CAPITALISM economic form middle ascetic Protestantism ascetic bourgeois strata ( reinforced through vocational the ...
... traditional 75 See Parsons , " Weber's ' Economic Sociology . " " CAPITALISM RATIONAL CAPITALISM POLITICAL CAPITALISM TRADITIONAL COMMERCIAL CAPITALISM MODE # INTRODUCTION 31.
... Traditional political the market through capitalist and profitsc productiona financeb through force and domination unusual types of trade and deals with money political authoritiese deals Figure 4. The Main Types of Capitalism and the ...
... traditional domina- tion , and charismatic domination — and a specific type of administration answers to each of them . Economic activities are typically played out within the broader context of political domination . There is also the ...
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 |