Essays in Sociology
by Max Weber
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- essays 1906-1920, collected 1946
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- German
- Length
- Long · 490 pp300 to 700 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendFrom Max Weber, Essays in Sociology, translated by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright MillsOxford University Press, 1958The English anthology the Great Books set draws on, with a long biographical introduction.
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The selection of Weber's writings translated by Gerth and Mills, the form in which most English readers meet him. The chapters assigned by the Great Books set include the lectures Politics as a Vocation and Science as a Vocation, the essay on the three types of legitimate authority, the analyses of bureaucracy, class, status and party, the sociology of charismatic leadership, and studies of the religions of China and India and the Protestant sects. Running through them is Weber's account of the rationalisation and disenchantment of the modern world.
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