Max Weber in America / Lawrence A. Scaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scaff, Lawrence A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociologists--Germany--Biography.

Sociologists.

Sociology--United States--History.

Sociology.

Weber, Max, 1864-1920--Travel--United States.

Weber, Max.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not always reliable 1926 biography of her husband.Max Weber in America carefully reconstructs this important episode in Weber's career, and shows how the subsequent critical reception of Weber's work was as American a story as the trip itself. Lawrence Scaff provides new details about Weber's visit to the United States--what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race, diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how Weber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. A landmark work by a leading Weber scholar, Max Weber in America will fundamentally transform our understanding of this influential thinker and his place in the history of sociology and the social sciences.

Contents:

The American journey. Thoughts about America

The land of immigrants

Capitalism

Science and world culture

Remnants of romanticism

The color line

Different ways of life

The Protestant ethic

American modernity

Interpretation of the experience

The work in America. The discovery of the author

The creation of the sacred text

The invention of the theory.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-303) and index.

ISBN:

9781299051140

1299051146

9781400836710

1400836719

OCLC:

845249089