Max Weber's Comparative-Historical SociologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 17 mars 1994 - 221 pages The revival of historical sociology in recent decades has largely neglected the contributions of Max Weber. Yet Weber's writings offer a fundamental resource for analyzing problems of comparative historical development. Stephen Kalberg rejects the view that Weber's historical writings consist of an ambiguous mixture of fragmented ideal types on the one hand and the charting of vast processes of rationalization and bureaucracy on the other. On the contrary, Weber's substantive work offers a coherent and distinctive model for comparative analysis. A reconstruction of Weber's comparative historical method, Kalberg argues, uncovers a sophisticated outlook that addresses problems of agency and structure, multiple causation, and institutional interpretation. Kalberg shows how such a representation of Weber's work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance in comparative historical studies today. Weber addresses in a forceful way the whole range of issues confronted by the comparative historical enterprise. Once the full analytical and empirical power of Weber's historical writings becomes clear, Weber's work can be seen to generate procedures and strategies appropriate to the study of present day as well as past social processes. Written in an accessible and engaging fashion, this book will appeal to students and professionals in the areas of sociology, anthropology, and comparative history. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Dilemmas and Problems | 3 |
World systems theory | 4 |
The interpretive historical approach | 5 |
The causal analytic approach | 7 |
Dilemmas Problems and Webers Contributions | 9 |
Multicausality | 10 |
theory vs delineated problems | 11 |
Ideal Types as HypothesisForming Models Economy and Society | 92 |
Ideal Types as Dynamic Models | 95 |
Patrimonialism | 96 |
Idealtypical Contextual Models | 98 |
Affinity and Antagonism Models | 102 |
Infradomain models of antagonistic relationships | 106 |
Interdomain models of affinities and antagonism | 108 |
Developmental Models | 117 |
Model building | 12 |
the Weber Renascence | 15 |
Foundational Strategies and Procedures | 21 |
The AgencyStructure Linkage the Pluralism of Motives and Webers Structuralism | 23 |
Methodological Individualism Verstehen Four Types of Action and a Pluralism of Motives | 24 |
the Modes of Patterning Action | 30 |
Orders and legitimate orders | 32 |
sociological loci for action | 39 |
The AgencyStructure Linkage | 46 |
Webers Multicausality | 50 |
The Principled Commitment to Multicausality | 52 |
Social Carriers | 58 |
the Opposition to Rational Choice Theory | 62 |
Historical Events Technology and Geography | 68 |
Power Conflict and Competition | 71 |
Conflict and competition | 75 |
The Causal Sociology Strategies and Procedures | 79 |
The Level of Analysis the Ideal Type | 81 |
The Ideal Type | 84 |
the definition of empirical cases | 87 |
The closure of social relationships and the routinization of charisma models | 120 |
Formal and theoretical rationalization models | 127 |
The Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework | 143 |
an Overview and Comparison to Recent Schools | 144 |
The causal methodology | 145 |
The theoretical framework | 149 |
Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework | 151 |
facilitating and necessary actionorientations | 152 |
Synchronic and diachronic interactions of action | 155 |
Conjunctural interaction and the context of patterned action | 168 |
the Dominance of the Caste System in India | 177 |
Degrees of causal centrality | 179 |
Synchronic and diachronic interactions of action | 186 |
Conjunctural interactions of action | 189 |
Max Webers ComparativeHistorical Sociology and Recent Schools | 193 |
An Overview | 194 |
Setting the Agenda | 202 |
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