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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... activities on behalf of a reform - oriented Protestant organization . The new study , like the first one , was based on a huge survey ; and it is clear that Weber had by now developed good quantitative research skills.7 In 1896 Weber ...
... activities on this score were part of a debate known as the “ Battle of Value Judgments ” ( Werturteilsstreit ) . Weber's fa- mous doctrine of objectivity did not exclusively grow out of his attempt to dis- tance himself from Schmoller ...
... activity which was considered " ethically unjustifiable or at best to be tolerated , " according to the prevalent religious view . The argument about the sect reinforcing ascetic Protestantism was added by Weber in an article of 1906 ...
... activity thanks to force or domination , e.g. , tax and office farming , colonial profits ( plantations , monopolistic and compulsory trade ) . * No more information on this type of political capitalism is to be found in section 31 ...
... activities are typically played out within the broader context of political domination . There is also the fact that each type of adminis- tration has to be paid for in some manner , for example , through benefices , via taxation , or ...
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 |