1st Edition

Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) Max Weber

By Jeffrey Alexander Copyright 1983
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able... Read more

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