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From Max Weber: essays in sociology
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Routledge
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2009.
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English
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9780415482691
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Introduction : the man and his work
I. A biographical view
II. Political concerns
III. Intellectual orientations
1. Marx and Weber
2. Bureaucracy and charisma : a philosophy of history
3. Methods of social science
4. The sociology of ideas and interests
5. Social structures and types of capitalism
6. Conditions of freedom and the image of man
pt. I. Science and politics
IV. Politics as a vocation
V. Science as a vocation
pt. II. Power
VI. Structures of power
1. The prestige and power of the "Great Powers"
2. The economic foundation of imperialism
3. The nation
VI. Class, status party
1. Economically determined power and the social order
2. Determination of class-situation by market-situation
3. Communal action flowing from class interest
4. Types of "class struggle"
5. Status honor
6. Guarantees pf status stratification
7. Ethnic segregation and caste
8. Status privileges
9. Economic conditions and effects of status stratification
10. Parties
VII. Bureaucracy
1. Characteristics of bureaucracy
2. The position of the official
3. The presuppositions and causes of bureaucracy
4. The quantitative development of administrative tasks
5. Qualitative changes of administrative tasks
6. Technical advantages of bureaucratic organization
7. Bureaucracy and law
8. The concentration of the means of administration
9. The leveling of social differences
10. The permanent character of the bureaucratic machine
11. Economic and social consequences of bureaucracy
12. The power position of bureaucracy
13. Stages in the development of bureaucracy
14. The rationalization of education and training
IX. The sociology of charismatic authority
1. The general character of charisma
2. Foundations and instability of charismatic authority
3. Charismatic kingship
X. The meaning of discipline
1. The origins of discipline in war
2. The discipline of large-scale economic organizations
3. Discipline and charisma
pt. III. Religion
XI. The social psychology of the world religions
XII. The Protestant sects and the spirit of capitalism
XIII. Religious rejections of the world and their directions
1. Motives for the rejection of the world : the meaning of their rational construction
2. Typology of asceticism and of mysticism
3. Directions of the abnegation of the world
4. The economic sphere
5. The political sphere
6. The esthetic sphere
7. The erotic sphere
8. The intellectual sphere
9. The three forms of theodicy
p.t IV. Social structures
XIV. Capitalism and rural society in Germany
XV. National character and the junkers
XVI. India : the Brahman and the castes
1. Caste and tribe
2. Caste and guild
3. Caste and status group
4. The social rank order of the castes in general
5. Castes and traditionalism
XVII. The Chinese literati
1. Confucius
2. The development of the examination system
3. The typological position of Confucian education
4. The status-honor of the Literati
5. The gentleman ideal
6. The prestige of officialdom
7. Views on economic policy
8. Sultanism and the eunuchs as political opponents of the Literati.
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