Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
This volume is a compact collection of Weber's most trenchant sociological writings.
Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.
The book was a formative text of the new discipline of sociology and has gone on to become a classic in the social sciences.
This volume, edited by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, offers an unparalleled selection of key Weber scholarship organized thematically and spanning the range of his sociological influence.
This book provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber’s work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings.
In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical methods of sociology and, at the same time, presents a devastating critique of prevailing sociological theory and of its universalist, determinist ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.