Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

In this accessible and engaging work, Kalberg shows how Weber's work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance for comparative-historical research today addressing in a forceful way the whole range of problems and dilemmas confronted by the comparative-historical enterprise.

Stephen Kalberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He has published widely on Max Weber and German and American political and economic cultures.

Introduction
Foundational Strategies and Procedures
the Agency-Structure Linkage: the Pluralism of Motives and Weber's Structuralism
Weber's Multicausality
the Causal Sociology: Procedures and Strategies
the Level of Analysis: the Ideal Type
Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models: Economy and Society
the Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed: Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework
Conclusion
References
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Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology An Interpretation and Critique

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