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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... Rational State and Its Legal System 116 NINE The National State and Economic Policy ( Freiburg Address ) 120 TEN The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization 138 PART III : CAPITALISM , CULTURE , AND RELIGION 155 ELEVEN The ...
... rational con- duct . " 50 Viewing the world in these terms entails a picture of the world as " a cos- mos without contradictions , " Weber notes , but that does not lessen its useful- ness as an analytical tool . 45 Weber ...
... rational and systematic in character was not so much that it lacked the organizational know - how or that people did not want to make money — there ob- viously existed sophisticated trading and banking corporations as well as ambi- 55 ...
... Rational Organization in the Sociology of Weber , " pp . 28-65 in Barry Hindess , ed . , Sociological The- ories of the Economy ( London : Macmillan , 1977 ) ; Stephen Kalberg , " Max Weber's Universal- Historical Architectonic of ...
... rational capital accounting , freedom of the market , rational technology , calculable law , and commercializa- tion . He alsc touches on a few other topics , such as the emergence of the share- holding corporation . Reading 2 ( " 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 |