A Weberian theory of human society : structure and evolution
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A Weberian theory of human society : structure and evolution
(The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association)
Rutgers University Press, c1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 295-313
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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Max Weber is considered by many to be the preeminent social theorist of the twentieth century. Nearly every aspect of modern social science, including the role of culture, modernization, and ethnic and race relations, can be traced to Max Weber's legacy. A Weberian Theory of Human Society sets forth a general theory of human society whose primary basis is the work of Max Weber. Integrating the often confusing and conflicting aspects of Weber's work and connecting them to the work of other social theorists, Wallace casts a broad new light on human society, addressing the most widespread and central theoretical concerns of late twentieth-century social science.
Opening with a description of the nature of the individual as the most fundamental element of society, Wallace includes a generic definition of human "rationality" that interrelates Weber's, and others', many uses of that term. Wallace presents human society as a system consisting of one set of institutions that takes in and prepares new participant individuals, a second set that organizes the activities of these individuals, and a third set that lets (or puts) them out when they become in some way incapacitated, emigrate, or die. The book focuses heavily on the middle, participant-organizing, set of institutions, their distinctive products and their evolving causal relations to one another. In exploring these relations a new interpretation is offered of Weber's best-known work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. This interpretation identifies two different ethics and two consequent spirits of capitalism--one for the entrepreneurs, and the other for the wage-workers.
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