Table Of ContentTRADITIONSINSOCIALTHEORY
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PHILOSOPHYOFSOCIALSCIENCE(SecondEdition)
TedBentonandIanCraib
CRITICALTHEORY
AlanHow
MARXISMANDSOCIALTHEORY
JonathanJoseph
MICROSOCIALTHEORY
BrianRoberts
WEBERANDTHEWEBERIANS
LawrenceA.Scaff
STRUCTURATIONTHEORY
RobStones
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POSTSTRUCTURALISMANDSOCIALTHEORY
DavidHowarth
THESIMMELIANLEGACY
OlliPyyhtinen
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HEALTHANDSOCIALTHEORY
FernandoDeMaio
TECHNOLOGYANDSOCIALTHEORY
SteveMatthewman
HUMANRIGHTSANDSOCIALTHEORY
LydiaMorris
INTERNATIONALMIGRATIONANDSOCIALTHEORY
KarenO’Reilly
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CRIMEANDSOCIALTHEORY
EamonnCarrabine
IDENTITYANDSOCIALTHEORY
StephanieLawler
POLITICSANDSOCIALTHEORY
WillLeggett
ENVIRONMENT,NATUREANDSOCIALTHEORY
DamianWhite,AlanRudyandBrianGareau
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Weber and the Weberians
Lawrence A. Scaff
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
1 WeberandHisLegacy 1
WeberandWeberiansocialtheory 1
TheWeberCircle 6
BeyondtheWeberCircle:foundingthesocialsciences 10
Émigrécontributions 14
ThepostwarformationofWeberiantheory 17
2 HistoricalandCulturalAnalysis 23
Religionandeconomicaction 23
Asceticismandmysticism,churchandsect 26
TheProtestantethicdebates 30
TheProtestantethicandmodernity 38
Theidealtype,understandingandexplanation 43
Levelsofanalysisand‘methodologicalindividualism’ 50
Theculturalproblemsofcapitalism 55
Lessonsforculturalanalysisandhistoricalsociology 58
3 TheTheory ofSocialAction 63
Rationalityandthetypesofsocialandeconomicaction 64
Interpretation,valuesandthesearchformeaning 70
Thegeneraltheoryofaction 77
Thetheoryofcommunicativeaction 85
Authority,domination,legitimacy 93
Charismaandrevolution 100
Traditionalauthorityandtraditionalism 103
4 Orders,Structures,Institutions 107
Thetheoryofbureaucracy 107
Lawandsociety 114
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Thesociologyofthestate 118
Citizenship,ethnicity,race,nationality 125
Democracyandcivilsociety 128
5 PathstotheModernWorld 135
Rationalizationanditssignificance 136
Civilizationanddiscipline 146
Escapingtheironcage:multiplemodernities? 151
Science,disenchantmentandre-enchantment 156
6 WeberianSocialTheoryandtheFuture 163
Weberiansocialscience 165
WeberandtheWesterntradition 169
Bibliography 175
Index 195
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Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Weber’stypologyofsalvationreligions:orientationstoward
theworld 28
2.2 Basictypesofeconomyorientedtowardindividualcapital
accumulation 33
2.3 AsimplifiedrestatementofWeber’s‘ProtestantEthic’thesis 52
3.1 Thepatternvariables 79
Tables
1.1 MaxWeber’sposthumouslypublishedmainworkinGerman,
1921–1925 7
1.2 MaxWeber’sworkinEnglishtranslation:themainbooksand
articles,1927–1960 12
1.3 MaxWeber’sworkinEnglishtranslation:themainbooksand
articles,1960–2012 18
3.1 Thederivationofthesocialsystem 83
3.2 AcharacterizationofthevaluespheresinHabermas’ssocial
theory 89
3.3 Somecharacteristicsofthemodernstructurallydifferentiated
life-world 92
3.4 Thetypesoflegitimatedominationorauthority 97
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