Max Weber Readings and Commentary on Modernity

Name: Max Weber Readings and Commentary on Modernity
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ISBN: 9780631214908

ISBN-10: 0631214909

ISBN-13: 9780631214908

Edition: 2005

Authors: Stephen Kalberg

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Gathering Max Weber's writings in a comprehensive collection, this title addresses a broad array of themes including the nature of work, the political culture of democracy, the character of the family and race relations, and the tension in modern societies between conformity and individualism.

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Stephen Kalberg, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, is the author of Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today (Ashgate 2012), the translator of Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Oxford 2011), and the editor of Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity (Wiley Blackwell 2005).



General Editor's Foreword


A Chronology of Max Weber's Life


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Max Weber: the Confrontation with ModernityMax Weber: the Person


Foundational Features of Weber's ""Interpretive Understanding""


Sociology: its Aim and the Centrality of Subjective Meaning, the Four Types of Social Action, and Value-Freedom and Value-Relevance


Research Strategies and Procedures: Ideal Types, Model-Building, Societal Domains, and the ""Locating"" of Social Action


The Vision of ""Society"": Ideal T