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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
December 31st 1958
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1946)
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در یکی از مقالاتم از مقاله ی علم به مثابه ی حرفه استفاده کردم. در آنجا در توصیف این اثر وبر نوشتم:
وبر معمولاً به سختی خوانده می شود و با سختی دوچندانی قابل ترجمه است. او همیشه از جملات طولانی استفاده می کند و در میان آن از جملات معترضه ی بسیاری کمک می گیرد. همچنین بعد از اینکه ایده ی خود را در پاراگرافی بیان کرد، معمولاً با چندین تبصره سعی می کند که آن را محدود کند تا به ظرافت تمام آنچه می اندیشد را به مخاطب بفهماند. شاید این ویژگی مکتوبات وبر به این دلیل باشد که او در حین نوشتن، "می اندیشد". مت...more
وبر معمولاً به سختی خوانده می شود و با سختی دوچندانی قابل ترجمه است. او همیشه از جملات طولانی استفاده می کند و در میان آن از جملات معترضه ی بسیاری کمک می گیرد. همچنین بعد از اینکه ایده ی خود را در پاراگرافی بیان کرد، معمولاً با چندین تبصره سعی می کند که آن را محدود کند تا به ظرافت تمام آنچه می اندیشد را به مخاطب بفهماند. شاید این ویژگی مکتوبات وبر به این دلیل باشد که او در حین نوشتن، "می اندیشد". مت...more
Vocation Lectures; excerpts from Economy and Society; essays from what would be compiled as Weber's Collected Works on Sociology of Religion (an intro, a between-tro, a companion essay to PESC, excerpts from Confucianism and Daoism and Religions of India), and some pieces about Germany politics and economy. Good intro too.
Intro says Max thought both Conservatives and Marxists were too simplistic, so he tried to carve out a third Liberal way that acknowledged the individual as a social actor whil...more
Intro says Max thought both Conservatives and Marxists were too simplistic, so he tried to carve out a third Liberal way that acknowledged the individual as a social actor whil...more
In an era when sociology seems to have lost its way between economics and anthropology this book by one of the pioneers of sociology, the German Max Weber (1864 - 1920) brings everything back into balance. To be clear about definitions, anthropology is the study of small scale mono-cultural groups while sociology should be the study of the organization of complex multicultural groups, how diverse peoples and interests are able to function as a whole. Weber covers structures of power, politics, s...more
I’ve read 'politics as a vocation' and 'science as a vocation' so far. I picked this up on a recommendation as a philosopher who does it better than RW Emerson. (Read this and you can’t help but acknowledge that German Idealism is vastly superior to American transcendalism was the recommendation). The similarities and differences with Emerson are mildly striking. First, they are both lectures, most of emerson's writing evolved as speeches, and while I don't know if that’s true for Weber, these t...more
This volume contains a series of essays by the German sociologist, Max Weber, whose work has been very influential in the social sciences. It provides entree to his thinking. Excellent source to understand better Weber's body of work.
i read this book during my HSM...examples given by the author at every point to clarify the view are interesting and easy to understand and they develop greater under standing of the context...
It becomes apparent after reading that many of the ideas Herr Weber advance are far more relevant than than many contemporaries would be willing to admit
Blew my fucking mind. It is amazing how Weber's sociological and political analysis is still relevant to a globalized economy.
A very good collection of pieces by Weber. A must have for any Weber enthusiast.
Not something I'd read for fun, but some interesting stuff in here.
I only read "Politics as Vocation" and "Science as Vocation" but both were worth the read. Especially amusing are his side remarks on universities and academicians.
Didn't read the whole thing, just selections for class.
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I think this book is gift for world
Slightly more interesting and more logical than Marx, but definitely not my favorite.
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My undergraduate Russian History professor gave me a battered copy of this collection half a lifetime and more ago. If I was serious about History he said, if I really cared about History and social history and how societies are structured and how they develop, then I'd need to read this. He was right back then, and he's still right. Weber's essays are fine pieces--- incisive, sombre, thoughtful. Indispensable to anyone who cares about analysing social structures.
Max Weber in this essays emphesis on notion of 'action' and 'meaning'. He believes that human being consist of for kind of 'actions'. 'Meaning' ma be of two kind. this is a great book for people who want to about sociology and its definition.
Classic!!! Is incredibly relevant today as it was when Weber wrote it, especially for those interested in the current practice of internet personalization (ie, The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser)
Karangan Max Weber selalu menarik. Pengamatan dan analisis yang dibuat cukup tajam dan dapat menggambarkan kondisi sosial masyarakat pada zamannya. Menarik untuk jadi referensi sejarah sosiologi.
Be sure to read Gerth & Mills' fine introduction to this edition of classic essays by Max Weber.
Much helpful for students of sociology.The Essays collected here are equally relevent even today!!
Dry as dust, but brilliant nonetheless.
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Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German lawyer, politician, historian, sociologist and political economist, who profoundly influenced social theory and the remit of sociology itself. His major works dealt with the rationalization, bureaucratization and 'disenchantment' associated with the rise of capitalism. Weber was, along with his associate Georg Simmel, a central figure in the establishment of...more
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“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”
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“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it is necessary to make a decisive choice. Whether, under such conditions, science is a worth while 'vocation' for somebody, and whether science itself has an objectively valuable 'vocation' are again value judgments about which nothing can be said in the lecture-room. To affirm the value of science is a presupposition for teaching there. I personally by my very work answer in the affirmative, and I also do so from precisely the standpoint that hates intellectualism as the worst devil, as youth does today, or usually only fancies it does. In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow old to understand him.' This does not mean age in the sense of the birth certificate. It means that if one wishes to settle with this devil, one must not take flight before him as so many like to do nowadays. First of all, one has to see the devil's ways to the end in order to realize his power and his limitations.”
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