MAX WEBER ON ECONOMY 
                  AND SOCIETY
    Max Weber’s work endures as an indispensable source for understanding modern societies. 
    This book outlines the key concerns of Weber’s sociology with its focus on law, religion, 
    politics, and economic life. The authors draw on their long-standing interest and expertise 
    in Weber’s sociology to give a critical reassessment of Weberian sociology based on the 
    most recent research findings.
      Robert J.Holton and Bryan S.Turner point to the productive legacy of Weber’s thought 
    in current areas of intellectual debate, notably the secularization and rationalization of 
    global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right, and the emergence of 
    post-modernism. They defend a version of social liberalism against both left and right-
    wing criticism via an analysis of Weber’s position in the sociological tradition.
      Wide-ranging and authoritative, Max Weber on Economy and Society is not only a major 
    reassessment of the contemporary significance of Weber’s social theory, but also a broad 
    perspective for the analysis of social questions.
    ‘Robert J.Holton and Bryan S.Turner have produced a marvellous book analysing both the 
    contribution of Max Weber to our theory of “modernity” and the comeback of Liberalism 
    as a viable ideological and social system.’
                                —Dr Ronald M.Glassman,  
                           William Paterson College, New Jersey
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        MAX WEBER ON ECONOMY 
                  AND SOCIETY
                    ROBERT J.HOLTON
                           and
                    BRYAN S.TURNER
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                      London and New York
                 First published in 1989 by Routledge
            This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010.
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                © 1989 Robert J.Holton and Bryan S.Turner
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               British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
                  Holton, R.J. (Robert John), 1946– 
                 Max Weber on economy and society. 
                 1. Sociology. Theories of Weber, Max 
              I. Title. II. Turner, Bryan, S. (Bryan Stanley), 1945– 
                      301′.092′4
              Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
                      Holton, R.J. 
                 Max Weber on economy and society 
                 Robert J.Holton and Bryan S.Turner 
                 p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 
            Weber, Max. 1864–1920. 2. Sociology—Germany—History 
                   I. Turner, Bryan S. II. Title. 
             HM22.G3W4435 1989 301′.0943–dc 19 88–30646 CIP
                ISBN 0-203-83163-2 Master e-book ISBN
                 ISBN 0-415-05433-8 (Print Edition)
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                                               CONTENTS
                Acknowledgements                                                                        v
                Introduction                                                                            1
            1   SOCIOLOGY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND LIBERALISM                                               10
            2   MAX WEBER, AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS, AND THE NEW RIGHT                                       21
            3   MODERNISM, POST-MODERNISM, AND WORLD RELIGIONS:                                           
                SOME ISSUES IN MAX WEBER’S SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION                                       47
            4   ON LAW, MORALITY, AND MODERN SOCIETY: THE                                                 
                RATIONALIZATION PROCESS                                                                70
            5   STATUS POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM                                             89
            6   HAS CLASS ANALYSIS A FUTURE? MAX WEBER AND THE 
                CHALLENGE OF LIBERALISM TO GEMEINSCHAFTLICH 
                ACCOUNTS OF CLASS                                                                     109
                Bibliography                                                                          135
                Index                                                                                 145
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