Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

Stephen Kalberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He has published widely on Max Weber and German and American political and economic cultures.

• Introduction. Part I: Foundational Strategies and Procedures.1. The Agency-Structure Linkage: The Pluralism of Motives and Weber's Structuralism.2. Weber's Multicausality.Part II: The Causal Sociology: Procedures and Strategies.3. The Level of Analysis: The Ideal Type.4. Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models: Economy and Society.5. The Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed: Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework.Part III: Conclusion.References.

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