Max Weber (The International Library of Essays in Classical Sociology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754627705 ISBN 13: 9780754627708

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Max Weber is a magisterial figure in the social sciences. His fundamental contributions to the methodological and conceptual apparatus of sociology remain of continuing relevance to contemporary debates. His astonishing range and quality of work on topics ranging from the comparative sociology of religion to political sociology, and the sociology of law to the sociology of music, have established Weber as a permanent point of reference for modern scholarship. Scholarly debates on the nature, significance and purpose of Weber's work demonstrate a significance for sociology's self-image that extends beyond their immediate interpretive importance. This volume, edited by one of the world's leading Weber scholars, offers an unparalleled selection of key Weber scholarship organized thematically and spanning the range of his sociological influence.

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About the Author

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University. Amongst his many publications are 'Weber, Irrationality and Social Order' (California 1988); 'Max Weber and the New Century' (Transaction 2003) 'Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography' (Transaction 2004); 'What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates (ed, Blackwell 1998); and 'Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present' (ed, Allyn & Bacon 2004). He was Editor of the ASA journal, Sociological Theory journal from 1989 to 1994, and is currently Editor of Contemporary Sociology.

Review

“Sica (Pennsylvania State Univ.) contends his bibliography supersedes all previous bibliographies about Max Weber in English. Following some preliminary remarks about the making of the bibliography, the book opens with several individual bibliographies by topic or form. The first consists of Weber's works in English translation. The second, third, and fourth list reviews of his works in English. Selected dissertations and theses make up the fifth list, while the sixth focuses on primary and secondary sources about Weber on rationality and rationalization processes in English. The last bibliography, the most comprehensive, is arranged by topic, then alphabetically by author; entries cite books, journal articles, and dissertations and theses.... [A]wealth of information for interested researchers. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and higher.” 

—J. C. Phillips, Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0754627705
• ISBN 13: 9780754627708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 752
• Editor: Sica Alan