Max Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion

For this important selection from Weber, sections of text from Weber's major works ( Gesammelte, Aufsatze Zur Religionssoziologie , including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; General Economic History ; and The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations ) have been carefully edited and substantially translated to form a coherent and integrated whole.Professor Andreski's aim has been to use Weber's own workds to explain crucial turns in the evolution of societies and cultures, while eliminating the difficulties of language and frequent mistranslation which have made Weber in the original so difficult and baffling for students new to his work.An essay by Andreski introduces the selections, which are centred on Weber's principal interest, the relationship between capitalism, religion and bureaucracy. He seeks to correct those misinterpretations of Weber's work which have stressed his classification, rather than his attempts to theorise and explain social phenomena on the basis of a comparitive analysis of universal historical trends.This book was first published in 1983.Andreski, Stanislav is the author of 'Max Weber on Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Religion', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415402149 and ISBN 041540214X.