![]() ![]() Throughout the late 1880s, Weber continued his study of history. In 1886 Weber passed the examination for " Referendar", comparable to the bar examination in the American legal system. For the next eight years of his life, interrupted only by a term at the University of Goettingen and short periods of further military training, Weber stayed at his parents' house, first as a student, later as a junior barrister in Berlin courts, and finally as a Dozent at the University of Berlin. In the fall of 1884 Weber returned to his parents' home to study at the University of Berlin. Intermittently he served with the German army in Strasbourg. ![]() In addition, Weber read a great deal in theology. Apart from his work in law, he attended lectures in economics and studied medieval history. Weber joined his father's duelling fraternity and chose as his major study his father's field of law. In 1882 Weber enrolled in the University of Heidelberg as a law student. Max Weber and his brothers Alfred and Karl in 1879. At the age of fourteen, he wrote letters studded with references to Homer, Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, and he had an extended knowledge of Goethe, Spinoza, Kant, and Schopenhauer before he entered university studies. It seemed clear, then, that Weber would apply himself to the social sciences. His Christmas present to his parents in 1876, when he was thirteen years old, took the form of two historical essays entitled "About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the emperor and the pope" and "About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations". ![]() At the same time, Weber proved to be intellectually precocious. Because of his father's engagement with public life, Weber grew up in a household immersed in politics, and his father received a long list of prominent scholars and public figures in his salon. His younger brother Alfred Weber was also a sociologist and economist. Weber was born in Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, the eldest of seven children of Max Weber Sr., a prominent politician and civil servant, and his wife Helene Fallenstein. 2.2 Sociology of politics and government. ![]() 2.1.3 The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism.2.1.2 The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism.2.1.1 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.Guided by volume editor Swedberg, the reader of this anthology discovers the significance and the enduring relevance of Weber’s contribution to economic sociology. As this volume demonstrates, what basically motivated Weber to work with economic sociology was a realization shared by many economists and sociologists today: that the analysis of economic phenomena must include an understanding of the social dimension. These include Weber’s discussion of what is now called social capital, his analysis of the institutions needed for a well-functioning capitalist economy, and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis. Though written nearly a century ago, Weber’s work has the quality of a true classic, and the reader will find many ideas in his writings on economic topics that remain applicable in today’s world. Also included is Weber’s celebrated inaugural lecture, “The Freiburg Address,” along with a number of central but hitherto inaccessible writings. Weber’s substantive views on economic sociology are represented in this volume through crucial excerpts from works such as his General Economic History and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but the reader can follow his attempt to construct a conceptual foundation for economic sociology in Economy and Society as well. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber’s work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber’s work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber’s enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. ![]()
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