Essential Weber: A Reader Book

	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Introduction to Max Weber	1
Pt. I	Comparing civilizations and the origins of modernity	11
1	Puritanism and the spirit of capitalism	25
2	Confucianism and Puritanism compared	35
3	Introduction to the Economic Ethics of the World Religious	55
4	The religious of civilization and their attitude to the world	81
5	Prefatory remarks to the Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion	101
Pt. II	Structures of power and stratification	117
6	Politics and the state	131
7	The three pure types of legitimate rule	133
8	The nation	146
9	The belief in common ethnicity	150
10	The household community	156
11	Capitalism in Antiquity	161
12	The conditions of maximum formal rationality of capital accounting	171
13	Status groups and classes	176
14	The distribution of power in society: classes, status groups and parties	182
15	Parties	195
Pt. III	The dilemmas of modernity	203
16	Intermediate reflection on the Economic Ethics of the World Religions	215
17	Bureaucracy	245
18	Formal and substantive rationalization: theocratic and secular law	250
19	The vocation of politics	257
20	The vocation of science	270
Pt. IV	Methodology of the social sciences	293
21	Basic sociological concepts	311
22	The 'objectivity' of knowledge in social science and social policy	359
	Glossary	407
	Index	414