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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
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Anthony Giddens
Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each ...
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Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Life
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Charles E Hurst
Living Theory is provocative and current in the issues it addresses. Although the book presents substantial information on the core content of classical social theories, its focus is on the application of theoretical arguments to social distance and separation in the U.S. Hurst chose Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, and Weber as classical representatives. ...
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The phenomenology of the social world
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Alfred Schutz
This book contains a thoroughgoing analysis of the role of objectivity versus subjectivity in the social sciences and the nature of human action . It also presents a philosophical analysis of the nature of social science as such, and raises as well as answers the fundamental question of whether to and to what extent the social sciences can provide ...
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The iron cage: an historical interpretation of Max Weber.
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Arthur Mitzman
This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. In synthesizing these aspects of Weber's life, Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. When it was first published in 1970, ...
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Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts
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Hartmut Lehmann, David Lazar (Editor), Professor Christof Mauch (Editor)
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its ...
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Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought
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Kenneth Morrison
'This is an excellent introduction to classical social theory. For most students it is the only book on the subject that they will need. The expositions are clear and comprehensive, outlining with almost alarming clarity ideas which many of us have to struggle' - Alan Bryman, The Management Centre, University of Leicester. This is a thoroughly ...
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Max Weber and Karl Marx
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Karl Lowith
Karl Lowith was the son of a Munich artist and studied philosophy and biology in Munich, Freiburg and Marburg. He began his teaching career in 1928 as Privatdozent in Marburg, working under Heidegger, but was forced to leave in 1934. After two years in Rome he held a chair at Tohku University, Sendai, Japan from 1936-1941. In 1941 he moved to ...
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Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work
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Dirk Kasler
This book has established itself as the standard short introduction in German to the work of Max Weber, and appears here for the first time in English translation. The author has a profound knowledge of Weber's writings, yet manages to make Weber's ideas accessible to the beginner.The book offers a comprehensive account of Weber's views, giving ...
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Scholarship and Partisanship: Essays on Max Weber
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Reinhard Bendix, Guenther Roth
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Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy
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John Patrick Diggins
Ever since World War II, Max Weber has functioned as a kind of monument to the most conservative and conventional orthodoxies of the social science establishments. John Patrick Diggins uncovers another Weber: one influenced by Nietzsche, one whose deep belief in individualism bound him close to the Emersonian tradition in America, one with a ...
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Max Weber
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Max Weber, S M Miller
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A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
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W G Runciman
This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of social science is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. Runciman argues that Weber's analysis breaks down at three decisive points: the difference between theoretical pre-suppositions and implicit value-judgements; the manner in which ...
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Understanding Classical Sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim
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Professor John Hughes, Dr. Wes Sharrock, Professor Peter J Martin
A lucid examination of the pivotal theories of Marx, Weber and Durkheim, this accessible text demonstrates the continuing relevance of these three figures to contemporary sociology. The authors show how the classical apparatus is still in use, even though it is being directed in new ways in response to the changing character of society. Writing ...
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Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order
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Alan Sica
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The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber's Developmental History
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Wolfgang Schluchter
Western rationalism - nature, of course, and genesis - was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical studies, Economy and Society and The Economic Ethics of the World Religions. His studies of the relationships among economy, polity, law, and religion are lasting scholarly achievements. In this ...
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Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
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Reinhard Bendix
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Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics
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Professor David Beetham
Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought. Drawing on these writings, still mostly untranslated, David Beetham offers the most ...
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Max Weber: A Skeleton Key
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Dr. Randall Collins
In Max Weber: A Skeleton Key Randall Collins gives a concise overview of the work of one of sociology's greatest classic thinkers. The many strands of Weber's theorizing and the breadth and scope of his historical comparisons are here brought clearly into focus. This is an ideal text for students in sociology.
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The Von Richthofen Sisters
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Martin Green
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The Cambridge Companion to Weber
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Professor Stephen P Turner
Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebears Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Weber's work always resists easy categorisation. Prominent as a ...
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Max Weber's Methodologies
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Sven G Eliasson, Sven Elison, Sven Eliaeson
Max Weber is widely regarded as the most important and influential figure in the history of the social sciences. Among other things, he wrote extensively on the methodology of the social sciences, but his writings on methodology are complex and are the subject of many conflicting interpretations. In this authoritative new book, Sven Eliaeson ...
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Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
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Fritz Ringer, Jane Bendix (Illustrator)
At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary examinations, the work of social theorist, Max Weber, is especially relevant. In this study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the German intellectual ...
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Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader
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Dr. Ian McIntosh
Brings together a selection of readings from the original texts of the three major classical sociological theorists: Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. Each reading is introduced by an editorial commentary which contextualizes the text within the writings of each theorist.
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Maturity & Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault, & the Ambivalence of Reason
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David Owen
This text examines Nietzsche, Weber and Foucalut as a distinct trajectory of critical thinking within modern thought which traces the emergence and development of genealogy in the form of immanent critique. The book aims to clarify the relations between these thinkers and to respond to Habermas' (and Dews') charge that these thinkers are nihilists ...
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The Sociology of Max Weber
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Julien Freund
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