Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

1998
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-71254-2 (ISBN)

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These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.

These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape. After the collapse of communism, many states are faced with the challenges of democratization: they need to establish their legitimacy in an uncertain economic climate and within a new geopolitical order. The essays in this volume develop Weberian concepts and apply his comparative-historical method to deepen our understanding of these problems. They cover a wide range of examples, from the United States to Western and Eastern Europe, and from Russia and Japan to the Islamic states.

RALPH SCHROEDER is Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He is the author of Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture and Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology.

Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Concept of Democracy in Weber's Political Sociology; S.Breuer Democratization in World-Historical Perspective; R.Collins State Formation and the Disciplined Individual in Weber's Historical Sociology; R.Axtmann Max Weber and Plebiscitary Democracy; S.Eliaeson The Nation-state, the Protestant Ethic, and Modernization; S.Whimster From Weber's Political Sociology to Contemporary Liberal Democracy; R.Schroeder Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy; S.Kalberg Max Weber and European Integration; C.Levy Back to 'Mitteleuropa'? Weber, Germany, and Contemporary Central Europe; Z.Krasnodebski Soviet Communism and Weberian Sociology; S.Breuer Western Impact and Asian Values in Japan's Modernization; A Weberian Critique; W.Schwentker Reframing Orientalism: Weber and Islam; M.Nafissi Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.1998
Zusatzinfo	XII, 206 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-333-71254-4 / 0333712544
ISBN-13	978-0-333-71254-2 / 9780333712542
Zustand	Neuware