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Max Weber : a skeleton key / Randall Collins.
Van Pelt Library HM22.G3 W4256 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Randall, 1941-
- Series:
- Masters of social theory ; v. 3.
- Masters of social theory ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920.
- Weber, Max.
- Sociology--Germany--History.
- Sociology.
- Germany.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, [1986]
- Summary:
- 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 breadth and scope of his historical comparisons are here brought clearly into focus. This is an ideal text for students in sociology.
- Contents:
- 1 Weber's Life and Personality: Melodramatics and Psychological Mysteries 9
- Weber's Career Pattern 12
- Weber's Breakdown and Its Causes 14
- Weber's Multisided Intellectual Personality 27
- 2 The Meaning of Ideas in History: Weber's Methodological Essays and Theory of Action 31
- Weber as Idealist 33
- The Methodenstreit: The Battle of Methods 38
- Weber's Action Theory 42
- 3 The Meaning of Ideas in History: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 47
- The Protestant Ethic 48
- Criticisms of the Protestant Ethic Thesis 51
- Weber's Defense 52
- 4 Rationalization: The Master Trend of History? 61
- Several Meanings of Rationality 62
- Rationalization in Western Music 63
- Rationalization as Social Tension 70
- 5 Weber's Vision of Social Change 81
- The Rise of Rational Capitalism 83
- The Weberian Causal Chain 86
- Weber's General Theory of History 94
- Weber's Agrarian Sociology: Material Conditions and Social Structure 97
- The Nature of Ancient Capitalism 99
- 6 The Comparative Studies of the World Religions 105
- Ancient Judaism 106
- The Religion of India 111
- The Religion of China 118
- 7 Weber's Sociological Encyclopedia 125
- Economy and Society 125
- Weber's Comparative Sociology as a Systematic Theory 130
- Weber's Theory of Stratification 132
- Weber's Contribution to Sociology 138.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 143-144.
- ISBN:
- 0803925506
- 0803925514
- OCLC:
- 12371339
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