Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber

by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Book Overview

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 to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138997730
• ISBN13: 9781138997738
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"