Max Weber's Political Sociology: A Pessimistic Vision of a Rationalized World

by Ronald Glassman, Dan A. Chekki (Editor), Vatro Murvar

Overview

This collection of essays focuses on Weber's political ideology as well as his political sociology. This interdisciplinary work draws upon the expertise of a number of writers and challenges major schools of thought on Weber. In the first section on ideology, scholars question whether Weber's political predictions were based on a realistic appraisal of social development or if his objectivity was compromised by events in Weimar Germany. They then address Weber's attitudes toward socialism in light of contemporary sociology and his early writings. Part two examines Weber's theory: the concept of rationalization; ideas about charisma; and the decline of charisma in light of the growing role of the media. A study of Weber's analysis of the 1917 events in Russia concludes the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313236426
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/24/1984
Series:	Controversies in Science , #45
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

RONALD M. GLASSMAN is currently executive director of New York City Americans for Democratic Action and has been actively involved in many political campaigns. He has written numerous volumes, including The Political History of Latin America, Democracy and Despotism in Primitive Societies, The New Middle Class and Democracy, and with Mark Green, A Democracy Agenda for the Year 2000.

DAN A. CHEKKI is Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg. His books include New Communities in a Changing World (1996), American Sociological Hegemony (1987), and Modernization and Kin Network (1974).