Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

An Interpretation and Critique
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-7456-1237-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

In this accessible and engaging work, Kalberg shows how Weber's work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance for comparative-historical research today addressing in a forceful way the whole range of problems and dilemmas confronted by the comparative-historical enterprise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalberg, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.

Part I: Foundational Strategies and Procedures.

1. The Agency-Structure Linkage: The Pluralism of Motives and Weber's Structuralism.

2. Weber's Multicausality.

Part II: The Causal Sociology: Procedures and Strategies.

3. The Level of Analysis: The Ideal Type.

4. Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models: Economy and Society.

5. The Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed: Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework.

Part III: Conclusion.

References.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Kalberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He has published widely on Max Weber and German and American political and economic cultures.