Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

Stephen Kalberg is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He has published widely on Max Weber and German and American political and economic cultures.

Introduction. Part I: Foundational Strategies and Procedures.

1. The Agency-Structure Linkage: The Pluralism of Motives and Weber's Structuralism.

2. Weber's Multicausality.

Part II: The Causal Sociology: Procedures and Strategies.

3. The Level of Analysis: The Ideal Type.

4. Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models: Economy and Society.

5. The Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed: Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework.

Part III: Conclusion.

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