Max Weber

Max Weber

The early career
1. The agrarian problem in Germany
Weber and modern capitalism
1. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
  1. The role of ideas in history
  2. Ascetic Protestantism and social change
2. The Weber thesis: critiques and continuities
The organisation of society
1. Action
2. Social inequality: power, class and status
  1. The formation of the class and status order
  2. Power and forms of domination
  3. Religion, bureaucracy and the Chinese literati
Capitalism, rationality and social change
1. The inexorability of rationality in the West
  1. The iron cage of bureaucracy
The methodological Weber
1. The nature of social sciences
  1. The Kantian strain in Weber's thought
  2. Knowledge and the interests of inquiry
2. Values and value freedom
  1. Value freedom and politics
3. The nature of sociology
  1. The ideal type
4. Weber's individualism
  1. Verstehen
  2. The antipathy to one-sided explanation
The legacy
1. Conflict theory
2. The rise of the West
3. Interpretative sociology
4. A sociologist of our time?

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