Max Weber's Sociology of Civilizations: A Reconstruction: A Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9780367497286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 536 str.

Stephen Kalberg

Opis

This book contributes to the establishment of the new field of civilizational analysis. A guidebook that assists social scientists in identifying and explaining the origins, contours, and trajectories of civilizations, it approaches the analysis of civilizations through the works of Max Weber.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Weber's Major Themes and the Foundational Features of His Methodology  1. Five Civilizations Themes  2. The Methodology: Foundational Features and the Mode of Analysis  Part II: The Conceptual Framework I: The Rationalization of Social Action Models and the Development Models  3. The Rationalization of Social Action Models: The Overarching Civilizations Theme  4. The Rationalization of Social Action Model I: The Rulership Domain  5. The Rationalization of Social Action Model II: The Law Domain  6. The Rationalization of Social Action Model III: The Religion Domain  7. The Rationalization of Social Action Model IV: The Economy Domain  Part III: The Conceptual Framework II: Expanding its Range and Evaluating its Usefulness  8. Weber's Further Models Salient to the Analysis of Civilizations  9. Evaluating the Conceptual Component: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Civilizations Analytic  Part IV: The Application of Weber's Mode of Civilizational Analysis I: The Origins, Contours, and Trajectories of the Rationalisms of Ancient China and Ancient and Medieval India  10. The Unique Rationalism of Ancient China  11. The Unique Rationalism of Ancient and Medieval India  Part V: Applications of Weber's Mode of Civilizational Analysis II: The Origins, Contours, and Trajectory of Western Rationalism and Modern Western Rationalism  12. The Rationalism of the Ancient West: The Tracks, Monotheism, World-Oriented Salvation Paths, the City, and Ancient Roman Law  13. The Uniqueness and Rise of Modern Western Democracy and Egalitarianism  14. The Uniqueness and Rise of the Modern State: Legal Equality and Universalism  15. The Uniqueness and Rise of Modern Capitalism  16. The Uniqueness and Rise of Logical-Formal Law  17. The Uniqueness and Rise of the Modern Bureaucracy  18. The Uniqueness and Rise of the World-Oriented Ethical Individual  19. The Uniqueness and Rise of Western Rationalism and Modern Western Rationalism: An Overview  Part VI: Toward a Systematic Study of Civilizations: Themes and Methodology Revisited  20. Weber's Main Themes Revisited  21. Weber's Methodology Revisited: The Mode of Analysis  Part VII: The Interpretive Understanding of Civilizations: A Weberian Guide  22. Lessons for Today: A Weberian Guide  23. The Interpretive Understanding of the Other: Expanding the Researcher's Horizon

O autorze

Stephen Kalberg is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Boston University and Local Affiliate of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA. He is the author of Max Weber’s Comparative-Historical Sociology; The Social Thought of Max Weber; Searching for the Spirit of American Democracy: Max Weber’s Analysis of a Unique Political Culture; and Max Weber’s Comparative-Historical Sociology Today. He is also the editor of Max Weber: Readings and Commentary on Modernity, and the translator of Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.