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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... social capital , his analysis of which institutions are needed for a well - functioning capitalist economy , and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis . Indeed , what basically motivated Weber to ...
... social science research and to which many prominent econo- mists belonged , the Verein für Sozialpolitik ( Association for Social Policy ) . In 1892 Weber published a study , commissioned by the Verein , of The Conditions of the ...
... Social Sciences , and which mainly deal with economics and social science in general . One of the most important of these , from the viewpoint of economics , is an essay of 1908 on marginal utility theory . Another is " Objectivity ' in ...
... social action as well as his comparative approach . " 10 Around this time Weber also laid the theoretical foundation for his sociology in his article " Some Categories of In- terpretive Sociology " ( 1913 ) .11 It was here , for the ...
... social policy . Furthermore , they took a militant stance against the analytical type of economics that in the ... Social Science and Social Policy , " p . 63 in The Methodology of the So- cial Sciences . Emphasis in the original . Weber ...
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 |