For Weber Essays on the Sociology of Fate |
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| Author:
| Turner, Bryan S. |
| Series title: | Theory, Culture and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8039-7634-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1995 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $66.99 |
Book Description:
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For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber′s sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner rejects the view that Weber′s sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic.
This Second Edition includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. Among the subjects it covers are: the...
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For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber′s sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner rejects the view that Weber′s sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic.
This Second Edition includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. Among the subjects it covers are: the fall of Communism, the demise of Marxist theory and the rise of postmodernism. The author examines a major theme in Weber′s historical sociology, namely the unintended consequences (fate) of social action. Turner illustrates this theme in chapters on religion, medicine, law, feudalism, the family and the capitalist economy. The book also provides a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches in the post-war period.