Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory.

Abstract

Part 1 The formation of Weber's world-view: religious faith in an intellectual's world reason and the indiviudal - the Kantian Unity the Nietzschean challenge the scientist in search of salvation towards a science of social reality. Part 2 Constructing an empirical social science: the scholarly and polemical context the meaning of rationality from premises to constructs - modelling social life the structure of collective action the historical development of rationality. Part 3 Explorations in Weberian social theory: understanding and social structure the empirical study of values society and the market from social theory to sociology.