Introduction 1. Weber before Weberianism Sociology, Revisited 2. Capitalism in Contemporary Debates: Sombart, Weber and Simmel 3. The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism 4. Wissenschaftslehre 5. The Reluctant Sociologist: From the Protestant Ethic to the Grundriss der Sozialökonomik 6. Going Beyond Weber 7. The Sociology of Religion 8. Power, legitimacy and democracy 9. Sociological Categories and the Types of Economic Activity: A Final Account
Biography
Sam Whimster
"In creating, single-handedly, a new genre for the appreciation of Weber - simultaneously didactic, contextual and (mostly) comprehensive - Sam Whimster's achievement is considerable...Whimster's book is indispensable."
-- Peter Baehr, Lingnan University, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, No.3, 2008
"Understanding Weber by Sam Whimster brings together more than a decade of cutting-edge work in Weber scholarship since the late 1990s...All of the most important developments in Weber research over the last ten to fifteen years are surveyed, collated, and interpreted in this extremely informative and fluently written volume."
-- Austin Harrington, University of Leeds/University of Efurt, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, No.3, 2008
