Essays in Economic SociologyThe 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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... German parliament , the Reichstag , which led the family to move to Berlin in 1869. Weber's mother , Helene Fallenstein - Weber , was intensely religious and came from a wealthy Huguenot background . The two parents were opposite ...
... ( German Society for Sociology ) , and it seems that it was around this point in time that Weber decided to get serious about sociology and try to set it on a sound scientific foundation . 8 Max Weber , The Methodology of the Social ...
... German republic to Vienna , and later on he almost became secretary of state for the interior . In 1919 he also took part in the Ger- man delegation to Versailles as an expert adviser . Weber was intensely patriotic , and this sentiment ...
... German , from the mid - nineteenth century onward German econom- ics was dominated by a very different approach , known as the historical school . This type of economics was part of a larger intellectual movement , historicism , which ...
... German terms for economics , such as Volkswirtschaftslehre and Nationalökonomie . But even if Weber did not use the term Sozialokonomik , how about the con- cept of social economics — especially the idea that economics is a very broad ...
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 |