Max Weber

Biography and general assessments -- Early work -- The protestant ethic -- Methods -- Religion -- Economics and law -- Culture

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction: The Unending Appeal of Max Weber within a Globalized Sociology -- PART I BIOGRAPHY AND GENERAL ASSESSMENTS -- 1 'The Life and Work of Max Weber', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 38, pp. 87-107 -- 2 'Authority and Autonomy in Marriage' and Craig R. Bermingham, 'Translation with Introduction and Commentary', Sociological Theory, 21, pp. 85-102 -- 3 'How Well Do We Know Max Weber After All? A New Look at Max Weber and His Anglo-German Family Connections', International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 17, pp. 307-27 -- 4 'The Changing Picture of Max Weber's Sociology', Annual Review of Sociology, 29, pp. 283-306 -- PART II EARLY WORK -- 5 'Max Weber's Dissertation', History of the Human Sciences, 16, pp. 27-56 -- 6 'Max Weber as Rural Sociologist', Sociologia Ruralis, 12, pp. 129-46 -- 7 'Max Weber and the Theory of Ancient Capitalism', History and Theory, 25, pp. 152-72 -- PART III THE PROTESTANT ETHIC -- 8 'Part I: Calvinism and the Infallible Assurance of Grace: The Weber Thesis Reconsidered', British Journal of Sociology, 39, pp. 143-77 -- 9 'Part II: Weber's Exploration of Calvinism: The Undiscovered Provenance of Capitalism', British Journal of Sociology, 39, pp. 178-210 -- 10 'The Vanishing Mediator: Narrative Structure in Max Weber', New German Critique, 1, pp. 52-89 -- 11 'Max Weber's Idea of "Puritanism": A Case Study in the Empirical Construction of the Protestant Ethic', a revised version from A Historian Reads Max Weber: Essays on the Protestant Ethic, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 5-50 -- PART IV METHODS -- 12 'Max Weber: Methods and the Man', Archives européenes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, 15, pp. 127-65