Scholarship and Partisanship Essays on Max Weber.

Today, Max Weber appears to many younger academic rebels as the patron sait of ""value neutral"" social science, yet he too engaged in a furious generational rebellion of his own, and in the end chose science as a vocation. These essays deal with Weber's substantive and meth...

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Main Author: Bendix, Reinhard
Other Authors: Roth, Guenther
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part A. IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT AND SCHOLARLY COMMITMENT
  • Chapter I. Weber's Generational Rebellion and Maturation
  • Chapter II. ""Value-Neutrality"" in Germany and the United States
  • Chapter III. Political Critiques
  • Chapter IV. Ideological and Scholarly Approaches to Industrialization
  • Chapter V. Sociology and the Distrust of Reason
  • Part B. COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMATION
  • Chapter VI. Sociological Typology and Historical Explanation
  • Chapter VII. Bureaucracy
  • Chapter VIII. Personal Rulership, Patrimonialism, and Empire-Building
  • Chapter IX. Charismatic Leadership
  • Chapter X. Japan and the Protestant Ethic
  • Chapter XI. The Comparative Analysis of Historical Change
  • Part C. PREDECESSORS AND PEERS
  • Chapter XII. The Historical Relationship to Marxism
  • Chapter XIII. The Genesis of the Typological Approach
  • Chapter XIV. Jacob Burckhardt
  • Chapter XV. Two Sociological Traditions
  • Chapter XVI. The Protestant Ethic-Revisited
  • INDEX