Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization
Published on 27. July 2016
XII, 206 pages
978-1-349-26836-8 (ISBN)
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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.
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Ralph Schroeder
Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization
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08/1998
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Ralph Schroeder
Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization
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08/1998
Palgrave Macmillan
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RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of
Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture
and
Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology
.
Content
Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Concept of Democracy in Weber's Political Sociology; S.Breuer Democratization in World-Historical Perspective; R.Collins State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber's Historical Sociology; R.Axtmann Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy; S.Eliaeson The Nation-state, the Protestant Ethic, and Modernization; S.Whimster From Weber's Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy; R.Schroeder Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy; S.Kalberg Max Weber and European Integration; C.Levy Back to 'Mitteleuropa'? Weber, Germany, and Contemporary Central Europe; Z.Krasnodebski Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology; S.Breuer Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan's Modernization; A Weberian Critique; W.Schwentker Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam; M.Nafissi Index
