Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

An Interpretation and Critique

Stephen Kalberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

1993
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-1237-9 (ISBN)

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In this accessible and engaging work, Kalberg shows how Webera 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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.9.1993
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 227 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-1237-7 / 0745612377
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-1237-9 / 9780745612379
Zustand	Neuware