Weberian Sociological TheoryCambridge University Press, 28.02.1986 - 356 Seiten Randall Collins convincingly argues that much of Max Weber's work has been misunderstood, and that many of his most striking and sophisticated theories have been overlooked. By analysing hitherto little known aspects of Weber's writings, Professor Collins is able both to offer a new interpretation of Weberian sociology and to show how the more fruitful lines of the Weberian approach can be projected to an analysis of current world issues. Professor Collins begins with Weber's theory of the rise of capitalism, examining it in the light of Weber's later writings on the subject and extending the Weberian line of reasoning to suggest a 'Weberian revolution' in both medieval Europe and China. He also offers a new interpretation of Weber's theory of politics, showing it to be a 'world-system' model; and he expands this into a theory of geopolitics, using as a particular illustration the prediction of the future decline of Russian world power. Another 'buried treasure' in the corpus is Weber's conflict theory of the family as sex and property, which Professor Collins applies to the historical question of the conditions that led to the initial rise in the status of women. The broad view of Weber's works shows that Weberian sociology remains intellectually alive and that many of his theories still represent the frontier of our knowledge about large-scale social processes. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Religion as economics | 7 |
Politics as religion | 12 |
Economics as politics | 14 |
Economics | 17 |
Webers last theory of capitalism | 19 |
The components of rationalized capitalism | 21 |
The causal chain | 26 |
Conclusion | 184 |
The future decline of the Russian Empire | 186 |
Size and resource advantage | 187 |
Fragmentation of interior states | 188 |
Showdown wars and turning points | 189 |
Overextension and disintegration | 190 |
Russian expansion and resource advantage | 191 |
Russian loss of marchland advantage | 195 |
Webers general theory of history | 34 |
Webers confrontation with Marxism | 37 |
Conclusion | 44 |
The Weberian revolution of the High Middle Ages | 45 |
The Weberian model | 46 |
The bureaucratic Church | 49 |
Monasteries as economic entrepreneurs | 52 |
Was medieval Europe capitalist? | 54 |
religious capitalism in Buddhist China | 58 |
The downfall of religious capitalism in Europe | 73 |
Conclusion | 76 |
A theory of technology | 77 |
What is an invention? | 80 |
The case of military technology | 85 |
The longterm perspective | 95 |
Tribal societies | 97 |
Command economies | 102 |
Capitalist innovation | 111 |
Conclusion | 115 |
Weber and Schumpeter toward a general sociology of capitalism | 117 |
Weber and Schumpeter | 119 |
Where do profits come from? | 122 |
Monopolization as a key economic process | 125 |
The organizational politics of money | 134 |
the nature of capitalist development | 139 |
Politics | 143 |
Imperialism and legitimacy Webers theory of politics | 145 |
Economic interests imperialist and nonimperialist | 148 |
Nationalism | 151 |
Legitimacy | 155 |
Legitimacy and imperialism | 158 |
Geopolitics external and internal | 161 |
Modern technology and geopolitics | 167 |
The size of contemporary and traditional states | 170 |
The vulnerability of sea power | 173 |
Air power and its geopolitical effects | 178 |
Russia as an interior state | 196 |
The Cold War as a turning point | 197 |
Interaction of geopolitical disadvantages | 201 |
Alternative perspectives | 204 |
Conclusion | 208 |
Culture | 211 |
Heresy religious and secular | 213 |
The universal church and the imperial state | 215 |
Heresy and organizational power struggles | 221 |
Geopolitical events and internal church conflicts | 226 |
The asymmetry of mystical and moralistic religions | 230 |
Puritans versus compromisers within moralistic religions | 240 |
Equivalents in secular politics | 241 |
Alienation as ritual and ideology | 247 |
Alienation in Marxs system | 250 |
The romanticization of past and present | 251 |
Cultural snobbery or revolution in ritual production? | 253 |
Surplus value versus the sociology of markets | 255 |
A micromacro perspective | 259 |
Alienation as modern secular politics | 261 |
Sex | 265 |
Webers theory of the family | 267 |
The geopolitics of the family | 271 |
The family as sex and property | 276 |
Political and economic determinants of family organization | 277 |
The kin group and its transformations | 285 |
The rise and fall of the household | 287 |
The question of Iroquois matriarchy | 294 |
Courtly politics and the status of women | 297 |
The Nayar puzzle | 299 |
Marriage politics in Heian Japan | 306 |
courtly politics and the status of women in world history | 312 |
Moral politics in ancient Rome | 315 |
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