Alfred Weber, 'The Sociological Concept of Culture'

In: Cultural sociology, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 256-270

Abstract

Alfred Weber (1868–1958) was one of the early German formulators of cultural sociology. The address that he gave before the Second Congress of German Sociologists in 1912 was his first formal presentation of the discipline. He wrote that the task of cultural sociology was to examine the relationship of the unilinear, rational, utilitarian process of civilization and organic, vital configurations of culture. The latter attempted to establish meaning for the changes generated by the former. It is translated in its entirety.