From Max Weber Essays in Sociology

Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.

PREFACE

v

INTRODUCTION: THE MAN AND HIS WORK

I. A Biographical View

3

(29)

II. Political Concerns

32

(13)

III. Intellectual Orientations

45

(32)

1. Marx and Weber

46

(5)

2. Bureaucracy and Charisma: a Philosophy of History

51

(4)

3. Methods of Social Science

55

(6)

4. The Sociology of Ideas and Interests

61

(4)

5. Social Structures and Types of Capitalism

65

(5)

6. Conditions of Freedom and the Image of Man

70

(7)

PART I: SCIENCE AND POLITICS

77

(82)

IV. Politics as a Vocation

77

(52)

V. Science as a Vocation

129

(30)

PART II: POWER

159

(108)

VI. Structures of Power

159

(21)

1. The Prestige and Power of the `Great Powers'

159

(3)

2. The Economic Foundations of `Imperialism'

162

(9)

3. The Nation

171

(9)

VII. Class, Status, Party

180

(16)

1. Economically Determined Power and the Social Order

180

(1)

2. Determination of Class-Situation by Market-Situation

181

(2)

3. Communal Action Flowing from Class Interest

183

(1)

4. Types of `Class Struggle'

184

(2)

5. Status Honor

186

(1)

6. Guarantees of Status Stratification

187

(1)

7. `Ethnic' Segregation and `Caste'

188

(2)

8. Status Privileges

190

(2)

9. Economic Conditions and Effects of Status Stratification

192

(2)

10. Parties

194

(2)

VIII. Bureaucracy

196

(49)

1. Characteristics of Bureaucracy

196

(2)

2. The Position of the Official

198

(6)

3. The Presuppositions and Causes of Bureaucracy

204

(5)

4. The Quantitative Development of Administrative Tasks

209

(3)

5. Qualitative Changes of Administrative Tasks

212

(2)

6. Technical Advantages of Bureaucratic Organization

214

(2)

7. Bureaucracy and Law

216

(5)

8. The Concentration of the Means of Administration

221

(3)

9. The Leveling of Social Differences

224

(4)

10. The Permanent Character of the Bureaucratic Machine

228

(2)

11. Economic and Social Consequences of Bureaucracy

230

(2)

12. The Power Position of Bureaucracy

232

(3)

13. Stages in the Development of Bureaucracy

235

(5)

14. The `Rationalization' of Education and Training

240

(5)

IX. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority

245

(8)

1. The General Character of Charisma

245

(3)

2. Foundations and Instability of Charismatic Authority

248

(3)

3. Charismatic Kingship

251

(2)

X. The Meaning of Discipline

253

(14)

1. The Origins of Discipline in War

255

(6)

2. The Discipline of Large-Scale Economic Organizations

261

(1)

3. Discipline and Charisma

262

(5)

PART III: RELIGION

267

(96)

XI. The Social Psychology of the World Religions

267

(35)

XII. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism

302

(21)

XIII. Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions

323

(40)

1. Motives for the Rejection of the World: the Meaning of Their Rational Construction

323

(1)

2. Typology of Asceticism and of Mysticism

324

(3)

3. Directions of the Abnegation of the World

327

(4)

4. The Economic Sphere

331

(2)

5. The Political Sphere

333

(7)

6. The Esthetic Sphere

340

(3)

7. The Erotic Sphere

343

(7)

8. The Intellectual Sphere

350

(8)

9. The Three Forms of Theodicy

358

(5)

PART IV: SOCIAL STRUCTURES

363

(82)

XIV. Capitalism and Rural Society in Germany

363

(23)

XV. National Character and the Junkers

386

(10)

XVI. India: The Brahman and the Castes

396

(20)

1. Caste and Tribe

398

(1)

2. Caste and Guild

399

(6)

3. Caste and Status Group

405

(4)

4. The Social Rank Order of the Castes in General

409

(2)

5. Castes and Traditionalism

411

(5)

XVII. The Chinese Literati

416

(29)

1. Confucius

421

(1)

2. The Development of the Examination System

422

(4)

3. The Typological Position of Confucian Education

426

(8)

4. The Status-Honor of the Literati

434

(2)

5. The Gentleman Ideal

436

(2)

6. The Prestige of Officialdom

438

(2)

7. Views on Economic Policy

440

(2)

8. Sultanism and the Eunuchs as Political Opponents of the Literati

442

(3)

NOTES

445

(24)

INDEX

469

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