From Max Weber Essays in Sociology

by Weber, Max; Gerth, H.H.; Mills, C. Wright

• ISBN13: 9780195004625
• ISBN10: 0195004620
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1958-12-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	v
INTRODUCTION: THE MAN AND HIS WORK
I. A Biographical View	3	(29)
II. Political Concerns	32	(13)
III. Intellectual Orientations	45	(32)
1. Marx and Weber	46	(5)
2. Bureaucracy and Charisma: a Philosophy of History	51	(4)
3. Methods of Social Science	55	(6)
4. The Sociology of Ideas and Interests	61	(4)
5. Social Structures and Types of Capitalism	65	(5)
6. Conditions of Freedom and the Image of Man	70	(7)
PART I: SCIENCE AND POLITICS	77	(82)
IV. Politics as a Vocation	77	(52)
V. Science as a Vocation	129	(30)
PART II: POWER	159	(108)
VI. Structures of Power	159	(21)
1. The Prestige and Power of the `Great Powers'	159	(3)
2. The Economic Foundations of `Imperialism'	162	(9)
3. The Nation	171	(9)
VII. Class, Status, Party	180	(16)
1. Economically Determined Power and the Social Order	180	(1)
2. Determination of Class-Situation by Market-Situation	181	(2)
3. Communal Action Flowing from Class Interest	183	(1)
4. Types of `Class Struggle'	184	(2)
5. Status Honor	186	(1)
6. Guarantees of Status Stratification	187	(1)
7. `Ethnic' Segregation and `Caste'	188	(2)
8. Status Privileges	190	(2)
9. Economic Conditions and Effects of Status Stratification	192	(2)
10. Parties	194	(2)
VIII. Bureaucracy	196	(49)
1. Characteristics of Bureaucracy	196	(2)
2. The Position of the Official	198	(6)
3. The Presuppositions and Causes of Bureaucracy	204	(5)
4. The Quantitative Development of Administrative Tasks	209	(3)
5. Qualitative Changes of Administrative Tasks	212	(2)
6. Technical Advantages of Bureaucratic Organization	214	(2)
7. Bureaucracy and Law	216	(5)
8. The Concentration of the Means of Administration	221	(3)
9. The Leveling of Social Differences	224	(4)
10. The Permanent Character of the Bureaucratic Machine	228	(2)
11. Economic and Social Consequences of Bureaucracy	230	(2)
12. The Power Position of Bureaucracy	232	(3)
13. Stages in the Development of Bureaucracy	235	(5)
14. The `Rationalization' of Education and Training	240	(5)
IX. The Sociology of Charismatic Authority	245	(8)
1. The General Character of Charisma	245	(3)
2. Foundations and Instability of Charismatic Authority	248	(3)
3. Charismatic Kingship	251	(2)
X. The Meaning of Discipline	253	(14)
1. The Origins of Discipline in War	255	(6)
2. The Discipline of Large-Scale Economic Organizations	261	(1)
3. Discipline and Charisma	262	(5)
PART III: RELIGION	267	(96)
XI. The Social Psychology of the World Religions	267	(35)
XII. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism	302	(21)
XIII. Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions	323	(40)
1. Motives for the Rejection of the World: the Meaning of Their Rational Construction	323	(1)
2. Typology of Asceticism and of Mysticism	324	(3)
3. Directions of the Abnegation of the World	327	(4)
4. The Economic Sphere	331	(2)
5. The Political Sphere	333	(7)
6. The Esthetic Sphere	340	(3)
7. The Erotic Sphere	343	(7)
8. The Intellectual Sphere	350	(8)
9. The Three Forms of Theodicy	358	(5)
PART IV: SOCIAL STRUCTURES	363	(82)
XIV. Capitalism and Rural Society in Germany	363	(23)
XV. National Character and the Junkers	386	(10)
XVI. India: The Brahman and the Castes	396	(20)
1. Caste and Tribe	398	(1)
2. Caste and Guild	399	(6)
3. Caste and Status Group	405	(4)
4. The Social Rank Order of the Castes in General	409	(2)
5. Castes and Traditionalism	411	(5)
XVII. The Chinese Literati	416	(29)
1. Confucius	421	(1)
2. The Development of the Examination System	422	(4)
3. The Typological Position of Confucian Education	426	(8)
4. The Status-Honor of the Literati	434	(2)
5. The Gentleman Ideal	436	(2)
6. The Prestige of Officialdom	438	(2)
7. Views on Economic Policy	440	(2)
8. Sultanism and the Eunuchs as Political Opponents of the Literati	442	(3)
NOTES	445	(24)
INDEX	469