Taking his departure from Max Weber s famous description of the world as disenchanted, by which he meant that everything could now be accounted for by theoretical and empirical science, Stephen David
In this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social thinkersW. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and ?mile Durkheimto understand a series of
Even today we can learn from older social scientists like KarlMarx, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Karl Bcher, Eduard Hahn, WilhelmOstwald, and Max Weber. Comparing industrial and nonindustrialwork, they wer
Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strate
The first set of essays traces the roots of Bourdieu's thought in classical sociology by closely examining his intellectual connections with the writings of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and aEmile Durkheim.
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and
This book explores a little-noticed tradition in the history of European political thought. From Plato and Aristotle to Tacitus and Machiavelli, and from Tocqueville to Max Weber and Hannah Arendt, p
Max Weber famously the defined the state as 'a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory'. Yet the degree to which this r
George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is a founding figure in the field of sociology. His stature is comparable to that of his contemporaries Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Mead's contribution was a profound
Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pion
Contents: Wulf D. Hund: Racism in White Sociology. From Adam Smith to Max Weber - Alana Lentin: Postracial Silences. The Othering of Race in Europe - Felix Losing: From the Congo to Chicago. Robert E.
Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Theriault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to
In this thoughtful and literate study, Schwehn argues that Max Weber and several of his contemporaries led higher education astray by stressing research--the making and transmitting of knowledge--at t
This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little atte
The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roo
This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies. Beginning from the classic work of Max Weber, the author analyses the origins of Judaism in the li
This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany. It includes chapters on the works of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Franz Neumann, Otto Kir
Originally published in 1974. The close connection between universities and bureaucratic institutions such as church and state was perhaps first noticed by Max Weber. Such institutions, he observed, r
Repositioning critical approaches to race, multiculturalism, and ethnicity, Chow (humanities, Brown U., Providence, RI) engages with the works of Foucault, Max Weber, Derrida, and others. The title pu
Max Weber viewed modern life as disenchanted, an arena from which scientific inquiry had banished magic. In contrast, Mark Schneider argues intriguingly that enchantment—the sense that we are confront
