The essential Weber : a reader / edited by Sam Whimster.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weber, Max, 1864-1920
Other Authors: Whimster, Sam, 1947-
Other title:Works. Selections. English. 2004
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Comparing civilizations and the origins of modernity
  • Puritanism and the spirit of capitalism
  • Confucianism and Puritanism Compared
  • Introduction to the Economic Ethics of World Religions
  • Religions of civilization and their attitude to the world
  • Prefatory Remarks to the Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion
  • Structures of Power and Stratification
  • Politics and the state
  • The three pure types of legitimate rule
  • The Nation
  • The Belief in Common Ethnicity
  • The Household Community
  • Capitalism in Antiquity
  • The conditions of maximum formal rationality of capital accounting
  • Status groups and classes
  • The distribution of power in society: classes, status groups and parties
  • Parties
  • The Dilemmas of Modernity
  • Intermediate Reflection on the Economic Ethics of World Religions
  • Bureaucracy
  • Formal and Substantive Rationalization: theocratic and secular law
  • The Vocation of Politics
  • The Vocation of Science
  • Methodology of the Social Sciences
  • Basic Sociological Concepts
  • The "Objectivity" of knowledge in the social science and social policy.