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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. The Author and His Career
  8. Weber’s Methodology of Social Science
  9. Weber’s ‘Economic Sociology’
  10. The Institutionalization of Authority
  11. The Modern Western Institutional System
  12. I. The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology
    1. Prefatory Note
    2. The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action
      1. a. The Methodological Foundations of Sociology
      2. b. The Concepts of Social Action
    3. The Types of Social Action
    4. The Concept of Social Relationship
    5. Modes of Orientation of Social Action
    6. The Concept of Legitimate Order
    7. The Types of Legitimate Order
    8. The Bases of Legitimacy of an Order
    9. The Concept of Conflict
    10. Types of Solidary Social Relationships
    11. Open and Closed Relationships
    12. Representation and Responsibility
    13. The Concept of 'Corporate Group' and Its Types
    14. Types of Order in Corporate Groups
    15. Types of Order Governing Action in Corporate Groups
    16. Types of Organization and of Corporate Groups
    17. Power, Authority, and Imperative Control
    18. Political and Religious Corporate Groups
  13. II. Sociological Categories of Economic Action
    1. Prefatory Note
    2. The Concept of Economic Action
    3. The Concept of Utility
    4. Modes of the Economic Orientation of Action
    5. Typical Measures of Rational Economic Action
    6. Types of Economic Corporate Groups
    7. Media of Exchange, Means of Payment, Money
    8. The Primary Consequences of the Use of Money--Credit
    9. The Market
    10. The Formal and Substantive Rationality of Economic Action
    11. The Rationality of Monetary Accounting--Management and Budgeting
    12. The Concept and Types of Profit Making--The Role of Capital
    13. Calculations in Kind
    14. The Formal and Substantive Rationality of a Money Economy
    15. Market Economies and Planned Economies
    16. Types of Economic 'Division of Labor'
    17. Types of the Technical Division of Labor
    18. Types of Technical Division of Labor--(cont.)
    19. Social Aspects of the Division of Labor
    20. Social Aspects of the Division of Labor--(cont.)
  14. III. The Types of Authority and Imperative Co-ordination
    1. The Basis of Legitimacy
      1. The Definition, Conditions, and Types of Imperative Control
    2. The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Authority
      1. Legal Authority
      2. Traditional Authority
      3. Charismatic Authority
      4. The Routinization of Charisma
        1. The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences
        2. cont.
        3. cont.
        4. Feudalism
        5. Feudalism Based on Beneficies and Other Types
      5. Combinations of the Different Types of Authority
      6. The Transformation of Charisma in an Anti-Authoritarian Direction
      7. Collegiality and the Separation of Powers
      8. The Functionally Specific Separation of Power
      9. The Relations of the Political Separation of Powers to the Economic Situation
    3. Parties: The Concept of Parties and Their Features
    4. Types of Government of Corporate Groups Which Minimize Imperative Powers: The Role of Representation
      1. Anti-Authoritarian Forms of Government
      2. 'Amateurs' or 'Non-Professional' Types of Administrative Personnel
  15. Representation
    1. The Principle Forms and Characteristics of Representation
    2. Representation by the Agents of Interest Groups
  16. IV. Social Stratification and Class Structure
    1. Concepts
      1. The Concepts of Class and Status
      2. The Significance of Acquisition Classes
      3. Social Strata and Their Status
  17. Notes
  18. Index

The Theory of Social and Economic Organization

MAX WEBER

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Copyright 1947 by Professor Talcott Parsons

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