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John Scott (Independent Academic, UK)
This introductory text provides an authoritative guide to the key ideas of Max Weber, charting the development of his ideas and placing them in context of his life and times…
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Stephen Kalberg
Joining the SAGE Social Thinkers series, this book provides readers with a clear and concise introduction and includes coverage of Weber’s insights on the promise and peril of Western industrial…
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Randall Collins
In Max Weber: A Skeleton Key Randall Collins gives a concise overview of the work of one of sociology’s greatest classic thinkers. The many strands of Weber’s theorizing and the…
‘The Anthem Companion to Max Weber’ offers the best contemporary work on Max Weber, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical…
Karl Lowith
This is a key text in modern interpretations of alienation in Marxist theory and rationalization in Weber’s sociology. It remains the best student introduction to the differences and comparisons between…
Wolfgang J. Mommsen,Jurgen Osterhammel
This book assesses Max Weber, a leading modern thinker and social scientist, comparing his work and contribution to such diverse fields as epistemology, political sociology, sociology of religion and economic…
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Brings together leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, criticize and update Max Weber’s legacy. This book provides an account of the theme…
Max Weber’s lecture ‘Science as a Vocation’ is a classic of social thought, in which central questions are posed about the nature of social and political thought and action. The…
William C. Agee,Pamela N. Koob
Cubism, widely regarded as the most influential style to emerge at the advent of modernism, had a home in New York and a leading figure in Max Weber.
Georg Neugebauer
In his writings on the sociology of religion, Weber offers interpretive schemes of religious life. Elaborated with great complexity, these schemes encompass numerous dimensions. This study examines them in the…
Alan Sica (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
The most profound and enduring social theorist of sociology’s classical period, Max Weber speaks as cogently to concerns of the new century as he did to those of the past
Features leading figures in history, sociology, political science, feminism and critical theory to interpret, evaluate, and criticize Weber’s legacy. This book provides an account of the theme of rationalization in…
Alan Sica
This work shows Max Weber’s pre-eminent position within social theory by applying his ideas to a broad range of topics of contemporary concern. It covers some 4600 bibliographic listings of…
Laurence McFalls
This essential volume not only contributes to the resurgence of interest in Weber’s oeuvre but goes beyond the exegetic and polemical debates of the burgeoning ‘Weberological’ literature in offering a…
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This book offers novel readings of Max Weber’s politics, approach to knowledge, rationality, counterfactuals, ideal types, power, bureaucracy, the state, history, and the non-Western world. Weber’s epistemological successes and failures…
Some of Weber’s most trenchant essays on sociology and economic issues. Many of these works have been translated expressly for this volume and include: The Concept of Social Action,Power…
M. Rainer Lepsius
This book presents a collection of essays on institutional theory written by the German sociologist and Weber-expert M. Rainer Lepsius. Based on Weber’s work, the author develops concepts of institutional…
Wie die Religionssoziologie, so hat auch die Rechtssoziologie Max Webers eine Aufnahme erfahren, die man als ‘normativisti- sches MiBverstandnis’ bezeichnen konnte. Talcott Parsons etwa wUrdigt die Rechtssoziologie deshalb als ‘Kern…
N. Gane
This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber’s work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber, a network of concepts can be developed…
This is a set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. It presents a publication of a series of letters written by Max Weber in…
This is a specially commissioned set of essays on the themes of Max Weber, culture, anarchy and politics. It presents the first complete publication (in both English and German) of…
After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization; they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a geopolitical order…
These essays bring Weber’s sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern…
Ahmad Sadri (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Lake Forest College, Illinois)
The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Weber’s thought, particularly in his works on religion and politics. Sadri provides a new perspective on the intelligentsia and its…
Max Weber is one of the most important modern social theorists. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today…
Reinhard Bendix
The purpose of this book is to make Weber’s sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation. This volume is…
F. Ringer
A comprehensive introduction to Weber’s thought. Fritz Ringer locates Weber in his historical context, relating his ideas to the controversies and politics of his day and considers the importance of…
Max Weber
In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber’s writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns. He has also included some shorter extracts from Weber’s…
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface…
T. Ekstrand
This book deals with the problem of how Christian theology can be integrated with secular thinking. It is claimed that since modern science applies many different perspectives, this integrative effort…
Andreas Von Bezold
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Religion, Note: bestanden, FernUniversitat Hagen (Institut fur Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wer heute Soziologie studiert, kommt am Werk Max Webers nicht…
Wolfgang Schluchter
In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Max Webers hat sich ein Forschungsprogramm entwickelt, das mitunter als das Weber-Paradigma bezeichnet wird. Dabei geht es nicht allein um Rezeption, sondern auch um…
Marianne Weber
Die von Max Weber als Wirklichkeitswissenschaft praktizierte Sozialwissenschaft ist durch die zentrale Achse der Sozialokonomie gepragt. Deren grundlegend historische Dimension analysiert der in Frankreich lehrende Historiker Hinnerk Bruhns in einer…
Max Weber, Edward Shils
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Michael Ungerer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Klassiker und Theorierichtungen, Note: 1,3, Universitat Hohenheim (Institut fur Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Moderne Unternehmensfuhrung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der uberwiegende Teil der deutschen…
Sylvia Meyer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Politik - Sonstige Themen, Note: 1,5, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Max Weber (1864-1920) ist, neben Durkheim, ein Klassiker der deutschen Soziologie. Von…
Profesor Bryan S Turner
This authoritative collection of essays examines Weber’s contribution to the contemporary debate about modernity and postmodernity.
Tony Waters
In this book, author Tony Waters explores Max Weber’s thinking about the discipline of populations and its implications for understanding the origins of the modern globalized world.
Max Weber,Hans Heinrich Gerth,C Wright 1916-1962 Mills
