This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.
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Bryan S. Turner is Dean in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Australia.
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Max Weber has long been regarded as a major figure in historical sociology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Max Weber, The Philosophy of Money, Middle Ages, Talcott Parsons, General Economic History, Stefan George, Weber's Protestant, Islamic Spain, Michel Foucault, North American, George Circle, Middle East, Soviet Union, The Religion of China, The Structure of Social Action, Weber's The Sociology of Religion, Wilhelm Hennis, First World War, Fustel de Coulanges, Keith Tribe, Norbert Elias New!
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Max Weber has long been regarded as a major figure in historical sociology. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Max Weber, The Philosophy of Money, Middle Ages, Talcott Parsons, General Economic History, Stefan George, Weber's Protestant, Islamic Spain, Michel Foucault, North American, George Circle, Middle East, Soviet Union, The Religion of China, The Structure of Social Action, Weber's The Sociology of Religion, Wilhelm Hennis, First World War, Fustel de Coulanges, Keith Tribe, Norbert Elias New!
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- Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker by Turner on 13 pages
- Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker (Key Sociologists) by Frank Parkin on 13 pages
- Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory by Talcott Parsons on 9 pages
- General Economic History by Max Weber on 7 pages
- Max Weber: Essays in Reconstruction by Wilhelm Hennis on 4 pages
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- Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937 (Cambridge Modern China Series) by Xin Zhang on page 12, and Back Matter
- THEORIZING CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY by Larry J Ray on page 190, and Back Matter
- Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society by Sung Ho Kim on page 19, and Back Matter
- Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People by Viviane Namaste in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Development Theory: An Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Change by Peter Preston on page 107, and Back Matter
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