Understanding Weber Book

List of figures     viii
Acknowledgements     ix
Abbreviations     x
Introduction     1
Weber before Weberian sociology, revisited     11
Capitalism in contemporary debates: Sombart, Weber and Simmel     29
The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism     48
'Wissenschaftslehre'     73
The reluctant sociologist: from the Protestant ethic to the Grundriss der Sozialokonomik     116
The Sociology of Religion     156
Going beyond Weber     193
Power, legitimacy and democracy     220
Sociological categories and the types of economic activity: a final account     247
Notes     271
Index     291