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Max Weber
The Confrontation with Modernity
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Edited by Stephen Kalberg
Blackwell Publishers
Due/Published
February 2005, 432 pages,
paper
ISBN
0631214909
More than 80 years after his death, Max Weber and his sociology continue to fuel intense interest, controversy and debate. This unique volume gathers Weber's writings on a broad array of themes, from the nature of work, to the political culture of democracy, to the uniqueness of the West, to the character of the family and race relations, to the role of science and the fate of ethical action in the modern world. One central aspect of the Weberian legacy--the questions of "How do we live?" and "How can we live in the industrial society?"--has been rejuvenated here as a pivotal theme that makes Weber even more accessible to current and future generations.Organized by topic, Max Weber includes numerous readings from contemporary sociologists that demonstrate how Weber's ideas have influenced recent scholarship. Editorial introductions and further reading lists help to place Weber in the history of ideas and sociological theory. Students, scholars, and all interested in Weber's views on the modern world will want this insightful and outstanding collection. Series:Modernity and Society Contents General Editor's Foreword
A Chronology of Max Weber's Life
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Max Weber: the Confrontation with Modernity
Max Weber: the Person / Foundational Features of Weber's "Interpretive Understanding" / Sociology: its Aim and the Centrality of Subjective Meaning, the Four Types of Social Action, and Value-Freedom and Value-Relevance / Research Strategies and Procedures: Ideal Types, Model-Building, Societal Domains, and the "Locating" of Social Action / The Vision of "Society": Ideal Types, Societal Domains, Open Models, and the Interweaving of Past and Present / Weber's Multicausality: Social Carriers and Values / Modern Western Rationalism I: Weber's Model / Modern Western Rationalism II: Empirical Variation / Fears About the Future and Proposals for Social Change / Weber on Modernity and Weber's Sociology: An Assessment / A Note on Weber's Mode of Writing
Part I: The Uniqueness of the West
1 The "Rationalism" of Western Civilization
Part II: The Uniqueness and Origins of the Modern Western Work Ethic
2 The Religious Origins of the Vocational Calling: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
3 Continuous Ethical Discipline: The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism
Part III: The Economy and the Specialized Nature of Work in the Modern Epoch
4 Market and Planned Economies: Modern Capitalism's Substantive Conditions
5 The Separation of the Worker from the Means of Production, the Spread of Officialdom, and Organizational Discipline in the Factory
6 The "Cultivated Man" and the "Specialist": Certificates and the Origin of Ideas in Science
7 Old and New Civilizations: Contrasting Rural Social Structures in Germany and
the United States
Part IV: Stratification and Inequality
8 "The Distribution of Power Within the Group: Class, Status, Party"
9 Germany as a Nation of Commoners: "National Character and the Junkers"
10 The Counterbalancing of Economic and Social Inequality by Universal Suffrage
Part V: Authority in the Modern Epoch: the Bureaucracy
11 Power and Authority: When and Why Do People Obey?
12 The Bureaucracy I: Formal Rationality, External Structure, Ethos, and Inequality
13 The Bureaucracy II: the Impact Upon Society
14 Past and Present: Charismatic Authority and its Routinization
Part VI: The Nation, the Modern State, and Modern Law
15 The Nation: A Sentiment of Solidarity and the "National" Idea
16 The State, its Basic Functions, and the Economic Foundations of Imperialism
17 From Particularistic Law to Formal Legal Equality and the Rights of Individuals
Part VII: The Circumscription of Ethical Action Today and Weber's Response
18 The Antagonism of the Economy and Political Domains to Ethical Action
19 A "Casing of Bondage" and the Rule of Functionaries: the Call for Political Leadership, Strong Parliaments, and an Ethic of Responsibility
Part VIII: The Political Culture of American Democracy: The Influence of the "Sect Spirit"
20 The Autonomy of the Individual in the Sect and the Capacity to Form Democratic Communities: Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience
Part IX: On "Race," the Complexity of the Concept of Ethnicity, and Heredity
21 On "Race" Membership, Common Ethnicity, and the "Ethnic Group"
Part X: The Meaning, Value and Ethical Neutrality of Science: "Science as a Vocation" and Other Writings
22 The Meaning and Value of Science: Disenchantment, "Progress," and Civilized Man's Meaninglessness
23 Ethical Neutrality in the Classroom and the Usefulness and Limits of an Empirical Science
24 The Opposition of Salvation Religions to Science and Modern Culture
Part XI: Modern Readings
25 Private Authority and Work Habits: England and Russia
Reinhard Bendix
26 The Data Protection Act: A Case of Rationalization
Martin Albrow
27 The McDonaldization of Society
George Ritzer
28 Hitler's Charisma
Luciano Cavalli
29 The Routinization of Charisma: Rituals of Confession within Communities of Virtuosi
Hans-Georg Riegl
30 The Political Culture of American Democracy: The Enduring Influence of Religion
Seymour Martin Lipset
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