Max Weber’s Sociology (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
	0.1 Weber\'s Sociology: Main Concepts, Goals, and Research Procedures
	0.2 An Overview: Themes and Directions
Part I: \"The Protestant Ethic Thesis,\" the Protestant Sects, and the American Reception
	1 \"The Protestant Ethic Thesis\": The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
		1.1 The Background
		1.2 The Argument
	2 The Protestant Sects and the \"Breeding\" of Ethical Action
		2.1 The Protestant Sects: The Social Carriers of Ethical Action in Colonial America
		2.2 \"Holding One\'s Own\" and the Methodical-Rational Organization of Life
	3 The Protestant Ethic Revisited: Key Terminological Distinctions and the Debate
		3.1 The Intellectual Context: The Controversy Over the Origins of Modern Capitalism and Industrialism
		3.2 Empirical Observations: The Turn Toward Religion and the Aim of The Protestant Ethic
		3.3 Modern Capitalism: The Decline Today of the Methodical-Rational Organization of Life and the Hegemony of Means-End Rational Action
		3.4 The Protestant Ethic Debate
	4 American Sociology\'s Neglect of The Protestant Ethic as a Theoretical Treatise: Demarcating the Parameters of Postwar American Sociological Theory
		4.1 The First Major Debate: Conflict Theory Versus Structural Functionalism
		4.2 The Second Major Debate: Comparative-Historical Sociology Versus Structural Functionalism Modernization Theory
		4.3 The Third Major Debate: The Sociology of Culture Versus Comparative-Historical Sociology
		4.4 The Fourth Major Debate: Rational Choice Theory Versus the Sociology of Culture and All Schools of Social Structures
		4.5 Barriers Against The Protestant Ethic?
Part II: Beyond The Protestant Ethic: The Multicausal Sociology of Religion
	5 From The Protestant Ethic to the Economic Ethics of the World Religions
		5.1 Both Sides of the Causal Question
	6 \"Ideas and Interests\": From The Protestant Ethic to the Later Sociology of Religion
		6.1 World Views, \"Rational Thought,\" Salvation Doctrines, and Weber\'s Post-Protestant Ethic Attention to Ideas and Values
		6.2 The Attention to Material Factors
		6.3 \"Ideas and Interests\"
Part III: The Origins, Uniqueness, and Pathway of the American Political Culture
	7 Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy
		7.1 A \"Tyranny of the Majority\" in the United States?
		7.2 The Critical Role of Civil Associations
		7.3 Conclusion
	8 The Analysis of the Unique American Civic Sphere
		8.1 Weber\'s Concepts and Analytic Framework: The Origin and Expansion of the Civic Sphere
		8.2 The Weberian Model: The Absence of the Civic Sphere
		8.3 Complementary Models: Updating and Extending the Weberian Analytic Framework
	9 The Modern World as a Monolithic Iron Cage? Utilizing Max Weber to Define the Internal Dynamics of the American Political Culture Today
		9.1 The \"Iron Cage\"
		9.2 More Dynamic and More Differentiated
		9.3 On the Political Culture of the United States
		9.4 Applying the Analysis: The American Political Culture Today
Part IV: The Sociology of Civilizations
	10 Economy and Society and the Sociology of Civilizations
		10.1 Economy and Society and Its Task
		10.2 The Sociology of Civilizations
	11 The Five Major Civilizations Themes
		11.1 The Formation of Subjective Meaning and the Causes Behind Its Variation
		11.2 The Uniqueness of Western Rationalism and Modern Western Rationalism
		11.3 The Causal Impact of Values and the Rationalization of Action: The Variation Across Civilizations
		11.4 Civilizational Rationalisms and World Views
		11.5 Conflict and Social Change: Stagnation and Dynamism
	12 The Nature of Work in Old and New Civilizations
		12.1 An Introduction: Contrasting Rural Social Structures in Germany and the United States
		12.2 Selections From Weber\'s Texts
	13 On Racism and Its Social Contexts
		13.1 An Introduction: On \"Race,\" the Complexity of the Concept of Ethnicity, and Heredity
		13.2 Selections From Weber\'s Texts
	14 Max Weber\'s Sociology of Emotions: A Preliminary Analysis
		14.1 Economy and Society: The Four Types of Social Action, Social Relationships, and Charismatic Rulership
		14.2 Modern Capitalism: The Urban and Industrial West – The Marginalization of the Emotions
		14.3 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: The Puritan Flight From the Emotions
		14.4 Internal and External Modes of Constricting the Emotions
	15 Routinization and Rulership
		15.1 Inherited Charisma and Office Charisma
		15.2 The Routinization of Charisma in Religious Groups
Appendix I: Civilizations East and West – An Interview
Appendix II: Critical Remarks on the Translation of The Protestant Ethic by Talcott Parsons
	A.1 Problems with the Translation by Parsons
	A.2 The Lack of a Standardized Terminology
	A.3 Does It Matter? A Few Passages Compared
	A.4 Features of This New Translation
References
Index