Max Weber

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Introduction to the New Edition

xiii

Introduction to the Original Edition

xiv

Career and Personal Orientation

1

(12)

PART ONE GERMAN SOCIETY AND THE PROTESTANT ETHIC

Weber's Early Studies and the Definition of His Intellectual Perspective

13

(36)

The Investigation of Agrarian Society and the Stock Exchange

14

(16)

The Structure of German Society

30

(11)

Weber's Intellectual Perspective

41

(8)

Aspects of Economic Rationality in the West

49

(34)

The Spirit of Capitalism

50

(5)

The Protestant Ethic

55

(9)

Ideas as Causes and as Consequences

64

(6)

Ethics of Trade and the Medieval City

70

(13)

PART TWO SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND SECULAR ETHIC: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CIVILIZATIONS

Introduction

83

(15)

Status Groups and Classes

85

(2)

Religious Leadership

87

(5)

The Religiosity of the Masses

92

(6)

Society and Religion in China

98

(44)

Contrasts and Early History

99

(10)

Dynastic Government and the Social Structure

109

(7)

The Literati and Confucian Orthodoxy

116

(9)

State Cult and Popular Religiosity

125

(10)

Confucianism and Puritanism

135

(7)

Society and Religion in India

142

(58)

The Hindu Social System

142

(17)

The Early Social Organization of Indian Society

159

(11)

Hindu Orthodoxy and the Brahmin Restoration

170

(23)

Secular Ethic

193

(7)

Society and Religion in Ancient Palestine

200

(57)

Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism

201

(4)

History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine

205

(9)

Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the Confederacy and the Early Kings

214

(19)

Political Decline, Religious Conflict, and Biblical Prophecy

233

(24)

Max Weber's Sociology of Religion

257

(28)

Theoretical Perspectives

257

(12)

Methods of Analysis

269

(16)

PART THREE DOMINATION, ORGANIZATION, AND LEGITIMACY: MAX WEBER'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Basic Concepts of Political Sociology

285

(13)

Interests and Authority

286

(4)

Domination, Organization, and Legitimacy

290

(8)

Charismatic Leadership and Domination

298

(31)

Charismatic Leadership

299

(9)

Familial and Institutional Charisma as Aspects of Domination on the Basis of Authority

308

(10)

The Struggle for Power Under Charismatic Domination

318

(7)

Theoretical Implications

325

(4)

Traditional Domination

329

(56)

Patriarchs and Their Households

330

(4)

Patrimonialism

334

(26)

Feudalism

360

(21)

Characteristics of the Modern State

381

(4)

Legal Domination: The Emergence of Legal Rationality

385

(32)

Introductory Considerations

385

(6)

The Emergence of Legal Rationality

391

(26)

Legal Domination (continued): The Modern State and the Struggle for Power

417

(41)

The Modern State and Its Legitimacy

417

(6)

Bureaucracy

423

(8)

The Struggle for Power Under Legal Domination

431

(27)

A Contemporary Perspective

458

(11)

Max Weber's Image of Society

469

(26)

Intellectual Affinities

470

(3)

Society and Polity

473

(6)

Ancient Judaism

479

(2)

Legal Domination

481

(5)

Intellectual Perspectives

486

(9)

Index

495

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