Max Weber's comparative-historical sociology today : major themes, mode of causal analysis, and applications / by Stephen Kalberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Reconstructing Major Themes; Introduction; 1Max Weber's Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History; General Features of Weber's Types of Rationality and Rationalization Processes; The Types of Rationality: Practical, Theoretical, Substantive, and Formal; Comparing and Contrasting the Types of Rationality; Rationalization Processes in General and Rationalization in Modern Societies.

2 Should the "Dynamic Autonomy" of Ideas Matter to Sociologists? Max Weber on the Origin of Other-Worldly Salvation Religions and the Constitution of Groups in American Society TodayThe Dynamic Autonomy of Religious Ideas: The Problem of Suffering and Religious Development; Part II: Weber's Mode of Causal Analysis; Introduction; 4 The Perpetual and Tight Interweaving of Past and Present in Max Weber's Sociology; The Level of Analysis: Ideal Types and Social Carriers; Weber's Multicausality I: The Broad Spectrum; Weber's Multicausality II: Societal Domains.

What Can Arise: The Importance of ContextThe Perpetual and Tight Interweaving of Past and Present; 5 Macro Comparisons: Precautions, Possibilities, Achievements, and Limitations; Macro Comparisons: Weber's Precautions; Macro Comparisons are Possible: The Usefulness of Ideal Types; Macro Comparisons: Achievements and Limitations; 6 The Theoretical Framework and Causal Methodology; The Theoretical Framework: Ideal Types and Societal Domains; The Causal Methodology.

Part III: Reconstructing Significant Developments from Weber's Oeuvre: The Rise and Expansion of Confucianism, the Caste System, and MonotheismIntroduction; 7 The Rise and Expansion of Confucianism in China; Confucianism's Major Features; Degrees of Causal Centrality: Facilitating and Necessary Patterns of Action; Synchronic and Diachronic Interactions of Patterned Action; The Contextual Dependence of Action-Orientations: Adequate Causality from Conjunctural Interactions; 8 The Rise and Expansion of the Caste System in India.

Degrees of Causal Centrality: Facilitating and Necessary Patterns of ActionSynchronic and Diachronic Interactions of Patterned Action; The Contextual Dependence of Patterned Action-Orientations: Adequate Causality from Conjunctural Interactions; 9 The Rise and Expansion of Monotheism in Ancient Israel; Degrees of Causal Centrality: Facilitating and Necessary Patterns of Action; Synchronic and Diachronic Interactions of Patterned Action; The Contextual Dependence of Patterned Action: Adequate Causality from Conjunctural Interactions; Part IV: Utilizing Weber I: The Importance of Deep Culture.

Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, offering a rich examination of the major themes in his sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations.

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