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Max Webers Religionssoziologie in interkultureller Perspektive
Jean Martin OuédraogoRevisiting Max Weber on India1 by SURENDRA MUNSHI Max Weber's claim to universality is in a significant sense related to the enlargement of his field of vision in his sociology of religion. Not that he was unaware of the world outside ...
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
Max WeberThis classic collection, which includes a new preface by Professor Bryan S Turner, draws together in a single volume his key papers on a wide variety of subjects
Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity
Scott LashMax Weber (1894-1920) is generally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. This collection pays homage to his influence, not just within sociology, but also political theory, science and religion.
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Max WeberMax Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century.
Methodology of Social Sciences: Max Weber
PreviewMax Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strategy of the social sciences.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max WeberThe Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber.
Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and ...
Robert M. GeraciExperience in Fantasy Games, edited by J. Patrick Williams, Sean Q. Hendricks, W. Keith Winkler, pp. 19–38. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Weber, Max. 1958. “Science as a Vocation.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited ...
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max WeberFor the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit ofCapitalism--one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001.
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard BendixThe purpose of this book is to make Weber's sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation.
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates
PreviewJohn Walliss Introduction In this chapter I intend to explore Max Weber's thesis concerning the 'disenchantment of the world' through a discussion of the emergence of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century America. Weber utilised this expression, ...
Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings
PreviewWeber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences.
Ancient Judaism
Max WeberWeber’s classic study which deals specifically with: Types of Asceticism and the Significance of Ancient Judaism, History and Social Organization of Ancient Palestine, Political Organization and Religious Ideas in the Time of the ...
Finite Elements in Vector Lattices
Martin R. WeberMartin R. Weber. Measure Rostock-Warnemuende 1977, part 1, 169–172, Greifswald, 1980. [129]M. R. Weber . Finite elements in the space of Radon measures. (Russian), SbornikOptimizacia ,47(64), (1990), 110–115.[130]M.R. Weber.
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
PreviewFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard BendixFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Max Weber and His Contempories
Wolfgang J. MommsenThis volume contributes not only to a better understanding of one of the most eminent modern thinkers and social scientists, but also provides an intellectual biography of a remarkable generation. This book was first published in 1987.
Max Weber: From History to Modernity
Profesor Bryan S TurnerThe book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max WeberAuthor's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.
Sociology Since Midcentury: Essays in Theory Cumulation
Randall CollinsComprised of 20 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the major historical and comparative sociologies, the traditions of Karl Marx and Max Weber with their subsequent transformations.
What They Saw in America
James L. Nolan, JrGrounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - ...
I Cover the Waterfront: Stories from the San Diego Shore
Max MillerMax himself has become a part of the waterfront. Not a fishing boat ties up to the wharf without Max Miller getting the story. Not a submarine comes in, or an airplane soars out over the water without Max Miller being invited to go.
General Economic History
Max WeberDIVStarting with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, the famed economist explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, the transporting of goods, and ...
Recent Advances in Fracture Mechanics: Honoring Mel and Max ...
PreviewDedication to Mel and Max Williams It is with deep admiration and respect that we dedicate this volume of the International Journal of Fracture to Mel and Max Williams. Through their combined efforts, with Max as founder and Editor-in-Chief ...
Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their ...
Dan PallottaPerry Miller, quoted in Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 12. Max Weber, “The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism” and Other ...
Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation ...
D. GabrielExcerpts from THE LETTERS OF HART CRANE, 1916–1932, edited by Brom Weber. Copyright 1952 by Brom Weber. ... Used by permission of Eden E. Gusewelle, sole surviving heir of the Brom Weber Estate. • Excerpt from “Burnt Norton” in ...
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