Contents

PREFACE,

INTRODUCTION

The Author and His Career,

Weber’s Methodology of Social Science,

Weber’s ‘Economic Sociology,’

The Institutionalization of Authority,

The Modern Western Institutional System,

THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF SOCIOLOGY,

The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action,

The Types of Social Action,

The Concept of Social Relationship,

Modes of Orientation of Social Action,

The Concept of Legitimate Order,

The Types of Legitimate Order,

The Bases of Legitimacy of an Order,

The Concept of Conflict,

Types of Solidary Social Relationships,

Open and Closed Relationships,

Representation and Responsibility,

The Concept of ‘Corporate Group’ and Its Types,

Types of Order in Corporate Groups,

Types of Order Governing Action in Corporate Groups,

Types of Organization and of Corporate Groups,

Power, Authority, and Imperative Control,

Political and Religious Corporate Groups,

SOCIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES OF ECONOMIC ACTION,

The Concept of Economic Action,

The Concept of Utility,

Modes of the Economic Orientation of Action,

Typical Measures of Rational Economic Action.

Types of Economic Corporate Groups,

Media of Exchange, Means of Payment, Money,

The Primary Consequences of the Use of Money. Credit,

The Market,

The Formal and Substantive Rationality of Economic Action,

The Rationality of Monetary Accounting. Management and Budgeting,

The Concept and Types of Profit Making. The Role of Capital,

Calculations in Kind,

The Formal and Substantive Rationality of a Money Economy,

Market Economies and Planned Economies,

Types of Economic ‘Division of Labour,’

Types of the Technical Division of Labour,

Types of the Technical Division of Labour (cont.),

Social Aspects of the Division of Labour,

Social Aspects of the Division of Labour (cont.),

Social Aspects of the Division of Labour (cont.),

Social Aspects of the Division of Labour (concluded),

The Expropriation of Workers from the Means of Production,

The Expropriation of Workers from the Means of Production (cont.),

The Concept of Occupation and Types of Occupational Structure,

The Principal Forms of Appropriation and of Market Relationship,

Conditions Underlying the Calculability of the Productivity of Labour,

Types of Communal Organization of Labour,

Capital Goods and Capital Accounting,

The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms,

The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms (cont.),

The Concept of Commerce and Its Principal Forms (concluded),

The Conditions of Maximum Formal Rationality of Capital Accounting,

The Principal Modes of Capitalistic Orientation of Profit Making,

The Monetary System of the Modern State and the Different Kinds of Money,

Restricted Money,

Paper Money,

The Formal and Material Value of Money,

Methods and Aims of Monetary Policy,

Critical Note on the ‘State Theory of Money,’

The Non-Monetary Significance of Political Bodies for the Economic Order,

The Financing of Political Bodies,

Repercussions of Financing on Private Economic Activity,

The Influence of Economic Factors on the Organization of Corporate Groups,

Motives of Economic Activity,

THE TYPES OF AUTHORITY AND IMPERATIVE CO-ORDINATION,

The Basis of Legitimacy,

The Definition, Conditions, and Types of Imperative Control,

The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Authority,

Legal Authority with a Bureaucratic Administrative Staff,

Legal Authority: The Pure Type with Employment of a Bureaucratic Administrative Staff,

Legal Authority: The Pure Type with Employment of a Bureaucratic Administrative Staff (cont.),

The Monocratic Type of Bureaucratic Administration,

Traditional Authority,

Traditional Authority,

Traditional Authority (cont.),

Gerontocracy, Patriarchalism, and Patrimonialism,

Modes of Support of the Patrimonial Retainer,

Decentralized Patrimonial Authority,

The Relations of Traditional Authority and the Economic Order,

Charismatic Authority,

The Principal Characteristics of Charismatic Authority and Its Relation to Forms of Communal Organization,

The Routinization of Charisma,

The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences,

The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences (cont.),

The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences (concluded),

Feudalism,

Feudalism Based on Benefices and Other Types,

Combinations of the Different Types of Authority,

The Transformation of Charisma in an Anti-Authoritarian Direction,

The Transformation of Charisma in an Anti-Authoritarian Direction,

Collegiality and the Separation of Powers,

Collegiality and the Separation of Powers,

The Functionally Specific Separation of Powers,

The Relations of the Political Separation of Powers to the Economic Situation,

Parties

The Concept of Parties and Their Features,

Types of Government of Corporate Groups Which Minimize Imperative Powers; the Role of Representation,

Anti-Authoritarian Forms of Government,

‘Amateurs’ or ‘Non-Professional’ Types of Administrative Personnel,

Representation,

The Principal Forms and Characteristics of Representation,

Representation by the Agents of Interest Groups,

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND CLASS STRUCTURE,

Concepts,

The Concepts of Class and Class Status,

The Significance of Acquisition Classes,

Social Strata and Their Status,

INDEX,

MAX WEBER: The Theory of Social and Economic Organization