Max Weber’s Sociological Thought on the Economy

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-707-1 (ISBN)

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Max Weber (1864–1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Weber’s work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society. Complicated by the reception history precipitated by his untimely death, the workings of the economy and capitalism are themes that run throughout his writings but are often overlooked or subordinated to his sociology.

In an attempt to restore Weber’s place in the history of economics and to relate his approach to social science to the field today, a distinguished group of Weberian scholars explore the life and works of Max Weber, his interest in economic institutions and forms and his most influential analytical concepts.

Andrea Maurer is a full Professor of Sociology at Trier University, Germany. She has published widely in the fields of economic sociology, new institutionalism and sociological theory.

Introduction: Max Weber’s sociological thought on the economy

Andrea Maurer

Part I Weber’s sociology

1. Max Weber: an academic life

Keith Tribe

2. The Sociology of Max Weber: background, foundation and perspectives on the economy

Andrea Maurer

3. Weber’s contribution to social science methodology and empirical social research

Alexander Betz and Stefanie Eifler

Part II A sociological perspective on capitalism

4. Weber’s historical studies on economic forms and institutions

Hinnerk Bruhns

5. The ethical systems of religions and the transformation of capitalism

Christian Etzrodt

6. Max Weber's social economics and the case of central banks

Sam Whimster

Part III Central analytical concepts and their current use

7. Rulership and its organization: nuanced organizational concepts in Weber’s thought

Robert Jungmann

8. Max Weber and the “bodenständige” life conduct: Views on a German town

Barbara Thériault

9. Statecraft, soulcraft and money-craft: Max Weber’s genealogy of Homo economicus

Sung Ho Kim

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-78821-707-1 / 1788217071
ISBN-13	978-1-78821-707-1 / 9781788217071
Zustand	Neuware