While most people are familiar with The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism, few know that during the last decade of his life
Max Weber (1864-1920) also tried to develop a new way of analyzing
economic phenomena, which he termed "economic sociology." Indeed, this
effort occupies the central place in Weber's thought during the years
just before his death. Richard Swedberg here offers a critical
presentation and the first major study of this fascinating part of
Weber's work. This book shows how Weber laid a solid theoretical
foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of new and
highly evocative concepts. He not only investigated economic phenomena
but also linked them clearly with political, legal, and religious
phenomena. Swedberg also demonstrates that Weber's approach to
economic sociology addresses a major problem that has haunted economic
analysis since the nineteenth century: how to effectively unite an
interest-driven type of analysis (popular with economists) with a
social one (of course preferred by sociologists). Exploring Weber's
views of the economy and how he viewed its relationship to politics,
law, and religion, Swedberg furthermore discusses similarities and
differences between Weber's economic sociology and present-day
thinking on the same topic. In addition, the author shows how economic
sociology has recently gained greater credibility as economists and
sociologists have begun to collaborate in studying problems of
organizations, political structures, social problems, and economic
culture more generally. Swedberg's book will be sure to further this
new cooperation.
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ISBN
9780691187662
Publisert
2018
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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