| Title:
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FOR WEBER
ESSAYS ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF FATE |
| By: |
Professor Bryan S. Turner |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
080397633X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803976337 |
| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 December, 1995 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Series: |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber's sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner rejects the view that Weber's sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic. This Second Edition includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. Among the subjects it covers are: the fall of Communism, the demise of Marxist theory and the rise of postmodernism. The author examines a major theme in Weber's historical sociology, namely the unintended consequences (fate) of social action. Turner illustrates this theme in chapters on religion, medicine, law, feudalism, the family and the capitalist economy. The book also provides a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches in the post-war period. |
| Synopsis: |
For Weber is recognized widely as one of the most incisive and stimulating books on Weber in the post-war period. Writing in defence of Weber's sociology against the criticism of academic sociology by Marxists such as Louis Althusser, Bryan Turner, a leading Weberian scholar, rejects the view that Weber's sociology is bourgeois, subjectivist and individualistic. This Second Edition, now available in paperback, includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981. The book also provides a survey of the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches in the post-war period. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |