From Max Weber : essays in sociology / translated, edited, with an introduction by H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills with a new preface by Bryan S. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Max, 1864-1920

Contributor:

Gerth, Hans, 1908-1979

Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge sociology classics

Routledge classics in sociology

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English. 2009

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Social Sciences.

Medical Subjects:

Social Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 490 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

Translated into English.

Contents:

Introduction : the man and his work

I. A biographical view

II. Political concerns

III. Intellectual orientations

1. Marx and Weber

2. Bureaucracy and charisma : a philosophy of history

3. Methods of social science

4. The sociology of ideas and interests

5. Social structures and types of capitalism

6. Conditions of freedom and the image of man

pt. I. Science and politics

IV. Politics as a vocation

V. Science as a vocation

pt. II. Power

VI. Structures of power

1. The prestige and power of the "Great Powers"

2. The economic foundations of "imperialism"

3. The nation

VI. Class, status, party

1. Economically determined power and the social order

2. Determination of class-situation by market-situation

3. Communal action flowing from class interest

4. Types of "class struggle"

5. Status honor

6. Guarantees pf status stratification

7. "Ethnic" segregation and "caste"

8. Status privileges

9. Economic conditions and effects of status stratification

10. Parties

VII. Bureaucracy

1. Characteristics of bureaucracy

2. The position of the official

3. The presuppositions and causes of bureaucracy

4. The quantitative development of administrative tasks

5. Qualitative changes of administrative tasks

6. Technical advantages of bureaucratic organization

7. Bureaucracy and law

8. The concentration of the means of administration

9. The leveling of social differences

10. The permanent character of the bureaucratic machine

11. Economic and social consequences of bureaucracy

12. The power position of bureaucracy

13. Stages in the development of bureaucracy

14. The "rationalization" of education and training

IX. The sociology of charismatic authority

1. The general character of charisma

2. Foundations and instability of charismatic authority

3. Charismatic kingship

X. The meaning of discipline

1. The origins of discipline in war

2. The discipline of large-scale economic organizations

3. Discipline and charisma

pt. III. Religion

XI. The social psychology of the world religions

XII. The Protestant sects and the spirit of capitalism

XIII. Religious rejections of the world and their directions

1. Motives for the rejection of the world : the meaning of their rational construction

2. Typology of asceticism and of mysticism

3. Directions of the abnegation of the world

4. The economic sphere

5. The political sphere

6. The esthetic sphere

7. The erotic sphere

8. The intellectual sphere

9. The three forms of theodicy

p.t IV. Social structures

XIV. Capitalism and rural society in Germany

XV. National character and the junkers

XVI. India : the Brahman and the castes

1. Caste and tribe

2. Caste and guild

3. Caste and status group

4. The social rank order of the castes in general

5. Castes and traditionalism

XVII. The Chinese literati

1. Confucius

2. The development of the examination system

3. The typological position of Confucian education

4. The status-honor of the Literati

5. The gentleman ideal

6. The prestige of officialdom

7. Views on economic policy

8. Sultanism and the eunuchs as political opponents of the Literati.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203452196 (electronic bk.)

0203452194 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90104426385

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