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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The Person and the Intellectual Context |
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B The Intellectual Context |
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Chapter 2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and the "Sect Essays" |
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A The Protestant Ethic Thesis I: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
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3 The Puritan Style of Life |
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B The Protestant Ethic Thesis II: The Protestant Sects and Ethical Action |
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Chapter 3 The Methodology |
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A Background Ideas and Presuppositions |
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1 The Rejection of the Search for True Values, General Laws, and Objective Facts |
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2 Weber's Rejection of Organic Holism |
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3 From Eurocentrism to a Comparative Sociology of Subjective Meaning |
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4 Conflict and Ethical Action |
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B Specific Components of Weber's Methodology |
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1 The Embrace of Multicausality |
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2 Interpretive Understanding and Subjective Meaning |
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3 The Four Types of Social Action and Subjective Meaning |
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4 Value-Freedom and Value-Relevance |
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6 The Goal of Weber's Sociology |
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Chapter 4 Economy and Society |
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A "Locating" Social Action: Societal Domains and Ideal Types |
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B Ideal Types as "Yardsticks" |
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C Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models |
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1 Elective Affinity and Relations of Antagonism Models |
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D Driving Forces: The Multicausality of E&S, Social Carriers, Power, and Ideas |
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E The Interweaving of Past and Present |
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Chapter 5 The Social and Political Context |
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1 The Support for Strong Parliaments |
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2 The Support for Democracy |
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3 The Support for Capitalism |
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4 The Necessary Constriction of Science |
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5 The Support for a Strong National State |
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Chapter 6 "Rationalism" East and West: The Economic Ethics of the World Religions and the Turn Toward a Sociology of Civilizations |
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A The EEWR: The Major Themes and Causal Framework |
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B Civilizations and a Civilization's "Rationalism": The Turn Toward a Sociology of Civilizations |
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Chapter 7 The Sociology of Civilizations I: Western Rationalism and Modern Western Rationalism |
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A Western Rationalism's Track I: Independent Cities, Christianity, Law, and Citizens in the Western Middle Ages |
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1 China, India, and the Middle East |
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2 Christianity I: The Decline of Magic |
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3 Christianity II: The City, the Formation of the Congregation, and the Further Weakening of Clan Ties |
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4 Roman Law and Canon Law |
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5 The Law: Comparisons to China, India, and the Middle East |
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6 Origins of the Modern State |
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B Western Rationalism's Tracks II: The West's Structural Heterogeneity and the Reformation |
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1 The Reformation: World and Religion Tensions |
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2 The Patrimonial Empires: Absolutism, Mercantilism, and the Decline of the Urban Revolution |
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b The Decline of Feudalism |
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c The Rise of Patrimonial Empires and Mercantilism |
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d Mercantilism's Opposition to Modern Capitalism |
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C The 17th and 18th Centuries: Technology, Science and Religion, the Factory, and Commercialization |
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1 The Role of Technological Change |
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2 The Influence of Science: Material-Technological Interests and Religious Belief |
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3 The Rise of the Factory |
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D Modern Western Rationalism's Concatenating Groups: Logical-Formal Law, the Modern State, and Bureaucratic Rulership |
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E Modern Western Rationalism and Modern Capitalism's Autonomy |
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F Weber's Multicausal, Comparative, and Configurational Methodology Revisited |
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Chapter 8 The Sociology of Civilizations H: The Rationalism of China |
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A The Stratification Configuration: the Clan, Magical Spirits, Patrimonial Rulership, and the Literati |
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B The Restriction of the Rationalization of Action: the Economy, Religion, and Law Domains |
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2 Religion: Confucianism and Magic |
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C Chinese Rationalism: Limitations on the Rationalization of Action |
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Chapter 9 The Sociology of Civilizations III: The Rationalism of India |
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A The Centrality of the Caste Order, the Brahmins, and Hinduism |
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B The Restriction of City Development |
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C The Economy: Traditional Economic Forms and the Traditional "Spirit" of the Caste Order |
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D Religion: the Traditional Economic Ethic of Hinduism and the Caste Order |
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E Traditional Types of Rulership and Law |
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F The Rationalism of India: the Endurance of Organic Traditionalism |
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Chapter 10 Applying Weber: The Birth and Growth of the American Civic Sphere |
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A Long-Range Precedents for the American Civic Sphere I: Community Building in the Ascetic Protestant Sects and Churches in the Colonial Era |
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B Long-Range Precedents for the American Civic Sphere II: World-Mastery Individualism in the Colonial Era |
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C From Ascetic Protestantism to the 19th Century's Civic Sphere |
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D Germany's Political Culture: A Contrast Case |
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Chapter 11 An Assessment |
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Chapter 12 Further Readings |
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A Commentaries On Max Weber's Oeuvre |
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B "Science as a Vocation" and "Politics as a Vocation": An Introduction |
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C Reading I: "Science as a Vocation" |
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D Reading II: "Politics as a Vocation" |
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Glossary |
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A Chronology of Max Weber's Life |
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References |
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Index |
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About the Author |
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