Essays in Economic Sociology

Abstract

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON THE TEXTS OF THE READINGS -- Introduction -- PART I: MODERN CAPITALISM -- O N E Modern Capitalism: Key Characteristics and Key Institutions -- TWO The Spirit of Capitalism -- THREE The Market -- FOUR The Beginnings of the Firm -- FIVE Class, Status, and Party -- PART II: CAPITALISM, LAW, AND POLITICS -- SIX The Three Types of Legitimate Domination -- SEVEN The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy -- EIGHT The Rational State and Its Legal System -- NINE The National State and Economic Policy (Freiburg Address) -- TEN The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization -- PART III: CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND RELIGION -- ELEVEN The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit -- TWELVE The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism -- THIRTEEN Kinship and Capitalism in China -- FOURTEEN The Caste System in India -- FIFTEEN Charity in Ancient Palestine -- PART TV: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY -- SIXTEEN Sociological Categories of Economic Action -- SEVENTEEN The Area of Economics, Economic Theory, and the Ideal Type -- EIGHTEEN Marginal Utility Analysis and "The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics" -- GLOSSARY Key Concepts in Weber's Economic Sociology -- A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO WEBER'S ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY -- INDEX