Max Weber : readings and commentary on modernity

Donación de Eduardo Weise.

General Editor's Foreword -- A Chronology of Max Weber's Life -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Max Weber: the Confrontation with Modernity -- Part I: The Uniqueness of the West -- Part II: The Uniqueness and Origins of the Modern Western Work Ethic -- Part III: The Economy and the Specialized Nature of Work in the Modern Epoch -- Part IV: Stratification and Inequality -- Part V: Authority in the Modern Epoch: the Bureaucracy -- Part VI: The Nation, the Modern State, and Modern Law -- Part VII: The Circumscription of Ethical Action Today and Weber's Response -- Part VIII: The Political Culture of American Democracy: The Influence of the "Sect Spirit" -- Part IX: On "Race," the Complexity of the Concept of Ethnicity, and Heredity -- Part X: The Meaning, Value and Ethical Neutrality of Science: "Science as a Vocation" and Other Writings / Stephe Kalberg -- Part XI: Modern Readings -- Private Authority and Work Habits: England and Russia / Reinhard Bendix -- The Data Protection Act: A Case of Rationalization / Martin Albrow -- The McDonaldization of Society / George Ritzer -- Hitler's Charisma / Luciano Cavalli -- The Routinization of Charisma: Rituals of Confession within Communities of Virtuosi / Hans-Georg Riegl -- The Political Culture of American Democracy: The Enduring Influence of Religion / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.