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  Max Weber   1864-1920

Encyclopedia entries

Also see  WW20th, Andy Blunden, ColE, ODQ, ELC, noesis, and MacE.

Notes on Max Weber

Readings

Sociology as Science (1897) 

The "Objectivity" of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy) (1904). 

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1905.

Methodology of the Social Sciences (1907)

General Economic History, 1923.

The Methodology of the Social Sciences, 1949. -

Commentaries

Max Weber, Essays in Sociology, ed. by C. Wright Mills and Hans H. Gerth (Oxford, 1958)

 Dirk Kasler, Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work, tr. by Philippa Hurd (Chicago, 1989)

Reinhard Bendix, Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (California, 1978)

The Cambridge Companion to Weber, ed. by Stephen Turner (Cambridge, 2000)

Stephen Kalberg, Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology (Chicago, 1994)

Martin Albrow, Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory (Palgrave, 1990)

Links

• "Dead Sociologists" page on Weber - very good review.
• Verstehen: Max Weber Homepage
• German Weber page.
• Collected Works of Max Weber.
• "Criticisms of Weber's Thesis" by Sandra Pierotti
• Basic Terms -- Summary of Max Weber's Ideas
• Dutch Max Weber page.
• M. Kuchenbrod's Unternehmerethos und Asketischer Protestantismus. Max Weber (1864-1920)
• L. Bornmann's "Grundbegriffe und leitende Annahmen der Handlungstheorie Max Webers"
• H. Kippenberg and P. Schilm Detektivarbeit an Max Webers Text 'Religionssoziologie'
• D. Spilker's Das Bürokratiemodell Max Webers und dessen Bezüge zur Unternehmertheorie

Quotations

CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SSR Prelim Summary Archive

Weber, Max. Economy and Society. Edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. New York: Bedminister Press, 1968, vol. 1, Conceptual Exposition, pp. 3-38 (Basic Terms), 212-54 (Legitimate Domination), 926-40 ( Class, Status, Party), 956-1005 (Bureaucracy).
_________. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. New York: Scribner, 1976.
_________. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated by Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946, pp. 77-156, 267-301, 323-59 (Vocation essays, World Religion essays); (cf. corrected translation of pp. 293-94 in Appendix of Levine, The Flight from Ambiguity).
_________. Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences. Translated and edited by Edward Shils and Henry A. Finch. Glencoe IL: Free Press, 1949, pp. 50-112 (Objectivity essay).
_________. General Economic History. New York: Collier, 1961, chs. 22, 27-30 (skip pp. 239- 49 [pp. 323-37 in Free Press edition]).