1st Edition

Weber and Toennies Comparative Sociology in Historical Perspective

By Werner J. Cahnman Copyright 1995
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

351 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of selected essays by Werner J. Cahnman brings together out of scattered dispersion his writings about Max Weber, Ferdinand Toennies, and historical sociology. The great theoretical range and depth of his intellect and mastery of sociological thinking is apparent as he discusses the impact of romanticism on modern thought, and how Weber and Toennies both analysed and reacted to... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Perspectives on Max Weber

1 Max Weber and the Methodological Controversy in the Social Sciences

2 Ideal-Type Theory: Max Weber's Concept and Some of Its Derivations

3 Notes on The Sociology of Religion by Max Weber

4 A Review: Mitzman's Iron Cage

Part II Comparative Approach to Toennies

5 Toennies and Marx: Evaluation

6 Toennies and Spencer: Evaluation

7 Toennies and Weber: Comparison

8 Toennies and Durkheim

9 Toennies and Social Change

10 Toennies, Durkheim, and Weber

11 Toennies in America

12 A Research Note on Phenomenology and Symbolic Interactionism

Part III Essays in Historical Sociology Pure, Applied, and Empirical

13 Historical Sociology: What It Is and What It Is Not

14 Vico and Historical Sociology

15 Starting Points in Sociology: Hobbes, Toennies, Vico

16 The Historical Sociology of Cities: A Critical Review

17 How Cities Grew . . .

18 The Rise of Civilization as a Paradigm of Social Change

Part IV Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

19 Religion and Nationality

20 Adolph Fischhof and the Problem of the Reconciliation of Nationalities

21 Nature and Varieties of Ethnicity

22 The Mediterranean and Caribbean Regions: A Comparison in Race and Culture Contacts

Appendix: Rudolf Hess; or, An Introduction to the Emergence of German Geopolitics: An Autobiographical Account

Index

Biography

Joseph B. Maier