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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... concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus . Weber's substantive views on economic sociology are represented in this volume ( continued on back flap ) Essays in Economic Sociology This One ET2E - ZQH -
... “ The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics " 249 GLOSSARY Key Concepts in Weber's Economic Sociology 261 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO WEBER'S ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 287 INDEX 303 NOTE OF ON THE TEXTS THE READINGS THE READINGS in vi CONTENTS.
... concepts . Together , these works are today known as the Outline of Lectures in General ( " Theoretical " ) Economics ( 1898 ) .26 As to Weber's published works , there are first of all his two dissertations in legal his- tory and the ...
... concepts as " goods , " " production , " and " income , " show that Weber saw both the historical and the analytical traditions essential for an understand- ing of economic phenomena . At one point , for example , Weber says that the ...
... concepts were not very much developed ; they were also defined exclusively in economic terms , as opposed to later , when Weber transformed them into sociological concepts . 34 Weber's work in economic history during the period from 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 |