Selections in Translation. Edited by W.G. Runciman

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Runciman W.G. (ed.). Max Weber: Selections in translation / Transl. by E. Matthews. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (1978).

Preface	vii
Publisher's note	x
Biographical Summary	xi
I.The Foundations of Social Theory
Introduction	3
1. The Nature of Social Action	7
2. Basic Categories of Social Organisation	33
3. Classes, Status Groups and Parties	43
Postscript: The Concepts of Status Groups and Classes	57
II. The Methodology of the Social Sciences
Introduction	65
4. Value-judgments in Social Science	69
5. The Concept of 'Following a Rule'	99
6. The Logic of Historical Explanation	111
III. Ideology
Introduction	135
7.Protestant Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism	138
8.The Soteriology of the Underprivileged	174
9.The Religions of Asia	192
IV.Politics
Introduction	209
10. Politics as a Vocation	212
11. The Nature of Charismatic Domination	226
12. Socialism	251
13. Economic Policy and the National Interest in Imperial Germany	263
14.The Prospects for Liberal Democracy in Tsarist Russia	269
V. Economic and Social History
Introduction	287
15. Urbanisation and Social Structure in the Ancient World	290
16. Government, Kinship and Capitalism in China	315
17. The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in Europe	331
18. The Development of Bureaucracy and its Relation to Law	341
VI. Miscellaneous Topics
Introduction	357
19. Race Relations	359
20. Industrial Psychology	370
21. The Stock Exchange	374
22. The History of the Piano	378
23. Freudianism	383
24 Sociology and Biology	389
Suggestions for Further Reading	391
Index	395