WEBER (Max).
Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretive Sociology.
The first complete English translation of Weber’s ultimately unfinished magnum opus Economy and Society, one of the most influential works of the classical sociological tradition, originally published in German in 1922 as Volume III of the collaborative work Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik.
Economy and Society stands as the culmination of Weber’s mature thought and represents the fullest expression of the ‘rationalization process’ of which modernity and capitalism are an expression. ‘The work is structured around the antithesis between ‘traditional’ and ‘rationalized’ forms of action and organization in all spheres of social life, and the transition between the two provides the key to the Weberian theory of modernization’ (New Palgrave).
The present English translation stands as a monument of scholarship with a total of ten contributing translators, including heavyweights of American sociology such as Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills and Edward Shills.
