The Theory of Social and Economic OrganizationThis bookis an introduction to Max Weber’s ambitious comparative study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order. In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical methods of sociology and, at the same time, presents a devastating critique of prevailing sociological theory and of its universalist, determinist underpinnings. None of Weber’s other writings offers the reader such a grasp of his theories; none displays so clearly his erudition, the scope of his interests, and his analytical powers. |
Contents
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Webers Economic Sociology | 30 |
The Institutionalization of Authority | 56 |
The Modern Western Institutional System | 78 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF SOCIOLOGY | 87 |
SOCIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES OF ECONOMIC ACTION | 158 |
Media of Exchange Means of Payment Money | 173 |
The Primary Consequences of the Use of Money Credit | 179 |
Capital Goods and Capital Accounting | 267 |
The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms | 268 |
The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms cont | 270 |
29A The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms concluded | 272 |
The Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Ac counting | 275 |
The Principal Modes of Capitalistic Orientation of Profit Making | 278 |
The Monetary System of the Modern State and the Different Kinds of Money | 280 |
Restricted Money | 289 |
The Market | 181 |
The Formal and Substantive Rationality of Economic Action | 184 |
The Rationality of Monetary Accounting Management and Budget ing | 186 |
The Concept and Types of Profit Making The Role of Capital | 191 |
Calculations in Kind | 202 |
The Formal and Substantive Rationality of a Money Economy | 211 |
Market Economies and Planned Economies | 212 |
Types of Economic Division of Labour | 218 |
Types of the Technical Division of Labour | 225 |
Types of the Technical Division of Labour cont | 227 |
Social Aspects of the Division of Labour | 228 |
Social Aspects of the Division of Labour cont | 233 |
Social Aspects of the Division of Labour cont | 238 |
Social Aspects of the Division of Labour concluded | 245 |
The Expropriation of Workers from the Means of Production | 246 |
The Expropriation of Workers from the Means of Production cont | 248 |
The Concept of Occupation and Types of Occupational Structure | 250 |
24A The Principal Forms of Appropriation and of Market Relation ship | 254 |
Conditions Underlying the Calculability of the Productivity of Labour | 261 |
Types of Communal Organization of Labour | 265 |
Paper Money | 291 |
The Formal and Material Value of Money | 292 |
Methods and Aims of Monetary Policy | 294 |
36A Critical Note on the State Theory of Money | 299 |
The NonMonetary Significance of Political Bodies for the Eco nomic Order | 309 |
Motives of Economic Activity | 319 |
Legal Authority with a Bureaucratic Administrative Staff | 329 |
The Monocratic Type of Bureaucratic Administration | 337 |
7A Gerontocracy Patriarchalism and Patrimonialism | 346 |
Decentralized Patrimonial Authority | 352 |
Charismatic Authority | 358 |
The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences cont | 367 |
12B Feudalism | 373 |
Combinations of the Different Types of Authority | 382 |
nomic Situation | 406 |
Types of Government of Corporate Groups Which Minimize Imperative | 412 |
Representation by the Agents of Interest Groups | 421 |
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