Sociological Writings Max Weber [Paperback]

Some of Weber's most trenchant essays on sociology and economic issues. Many of these works have been translated expressly for this volume and include: The Concept of Social Action, Power, Authority, and Imperative Control, Bureaucreatic Authority, The Distribution of Power within the Political Community, The Chinese Literati, The Origins of Modern Capitalism, Judaism, Christianity, and the Socioeconomic Order, Definition of Sociology, Ideal-Type Constructs, Science as a Vocation, and other essays.

Introduction: Wolf Heydebrand
Editor's Acknowledgments

SOCIAL ACTION AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
1. The Concept of Social Action
2. The Types of Social Action
3. The Concept of Social Relationship
4. The Concept of Legitimate Order
5. The Bases of Legitimacy of an Order
6. The Concept of Conflict
7. Types of Solidary Social Relationships
8. Open and Closed Relationships
9. Power, Authority, and Imperative Control
10. Political and Religious Corporate Groups
Translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons

DOMINATION AND STRATIFICATION
11. Legitimacy and the Types of Authority
12. Charismatic Authority
13. The Routinization of Charisma
14. Collegiality and the Division of Powers
Translated by Martin Black

15. Bureaucratic Authority
Translated by Martin Black, with Lance W. Garmer

16. The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Classes, Status Groups, Political Parties
Translated by Martin Black

17. The Chinese Literati
Translated by Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills

RATIONALIZATION IN ECONOMY, RELIGION, AND LAW
18. The Origins of Modern Capitalism
19. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit