Max Weber

An Intellectual Portrait
1. Auflage 1978
ISBN: 978-0-520-03194-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 573 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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 used as an introduction to the study of orignal Weber texts and gives the reader a systematic presentation of Weber's sociological studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bendix, Reinhard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roth, Guenther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Career and Personal Orientation

PART ONE GERMAN SOCIETY AND THE PROTESTANT ETHIC
II. Weber's Early Studies and the Definition of His Intellectual Perspective
III. Aspects of Economic Rationality in the West

PART TWO SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND SECULAR ETHIC: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CIVILIZATIONS
IV. Introduction
V. Society and Religion in China
VI. Society and Religion in India
VII. Society and Religion in Ancient Palestine
VIII. Max Weber's Sociology of Religion

PART THREE DOMINATION, ORGANIZATION, AND LEGITIMACY: MAX WEBER'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
IX. Basic Concepts of Political Sociology
X. Charismatic Leadership and Domination
XI. Traditional Domination
XII. Legal Domination: The Emergence of Legal Rationality
XIII. Legal Domination (continued): The Modern Sate and Struggle for Power
XIV. A Contemporary Perspective
XV. Max Weber's Image of Society

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reinhard Bendix (1916 - 1991) was professor of political science at the University of California in Berkeley, where he has been teaching since 1947. Born in Berlin in 1916, Bendix fled the Hitler regime when he was twenty-two, and came to the United States, where he entered the University of Chicago. There he studied sociology and obtained a B.A. in 1941, an M.A. in 1943, and his Ph.D. four years later. In 1970 he was president of the American Sociological Association.Among his numerous books are Work an Authority (1956), Nation-baking and Citizenship (1964), Embattled Reason (1970), and Kinds or People (1980).