Max Weber
An Intellectual Portrait
1st Edition
Published on 18. January 1978
Book
Paperback/Softback
573 pages
978-0-520-03194-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-03194-4 (9780520031944)
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Persons
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).
Content
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