Action

, 139–140

types of

, 59, 142–144

see also Affectual action; Economic action; Habitual action; Purposive-rational action; Rational action; Value-rational action

Administrative structures

, 93, 96, 101–102

see also bureaucracy

Affectual action

, 142

Agrarian civilisations

, 80–82

Agrarian property in East Elbe

, 1, 17, 28, 33ff., 172

Althoff, Friedrich

, 17

Archive for Social Science and Social Policy

, 21, 41ff., 117, 119, 120, 179

Aron, Raymond

, 183

Asceticism

, 70–71, 72, 124, 131, 177

Association

, 86, 147

compulsory association (Anstalt)

, 147

voluntary association (Verein)

, 147

Associative action

, 146

Authority

, 83ff., 150–151

Bachofen, Johan

, 169–170

Banking

, 168–169, 172

see also Money, Stock exchange

Baptists

, 67, 69, 71, 124

Barth, Paul

, 9

Bastian, Adolf

, 9

Baumgarten, Emmy

, 15, 18

Baumgarten, Hermann

, 15, 16

Baumgarten, Otto

, 15

Baxter, Richard

, 73

Bendix, Reinhard

, 183

Bismarck, Otto von

, 3, 13, 158

Bloch, Ernst

, 22

Bourgeoisie

, 3, 105, 154ff., 173

Brahmins

, 129–130

Brentano, Lujo

, 6, 8, 64, 74

Buber, Martin

, 9

Buddhism

, 119, 120, 123, 124–125, 130, 134

Bureaucracy

, 98–99, 151, 152, 155, 176

Böhm- Bawerk, Eugen von

, 6

Calling

, 68, 70, 71, 166, 177

Calvinism

, 67, 69, 70, 71, 124

Capitalism

, 6, 21, 27, 35, 174

ancient capitalism

, 81

modern capitalism

, 28, 37, 63ff., 81, 163, 167, 168, 169ff., 174–175

rationality of

, 64

Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

, 183

Caste

, 1, 91, 104, 129–130, 133

Catholicism

, 65, 67, 68, 74–75, 120, 124, 131, 134, 177

Charismatic authority

, 94ff., 110, 132, 151, 152–153, 157

routinisation of

, 94–95

Chinese religion and society

, 1, 119, 125ff., 170

Christianity. See Catholicism; Protestantism

Christian Socialism

, 17

Church

, 110–111, 148

Cities

, 30, 81, 103ff

Class

, 6, 39, 86, 89ff., 98, 137, 148ff.

Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society

, 183

Closure

, 85–86, 146–147

Collected Essays on Methodology

, 182

Collected Essays on the Sociology of Religion

, 23, 26, 82, 120–121, 135, 137, 148, 179, 181

Collective entities

, 52, 57, 59, 141–142, 147–148

Communal action

, 85, 139, 146

Comte, Auguste

, 8, 45

Concept formation

, 52ff.

Confucianism

, 113, 119–120, 122–123, 125ff., 133

Conservative Party

, 17

Convention

, 101, 144

Corporations

, 37

see also Joint stock company

Cults

, 107, 128, 132

Cultural sciences

, 4–5, 42, 54

Cultural significance

, 43

Custom

, 101, 144

Dahrendorf, Ralf

, 183

Demagoguery

, 153

Democracy

, 1, 7, 151ff., 155, 156, 179

Diaspora

, 134

see also Pariah groups

Dilthey, Wilhelm

, 4, 13

Disenchantment

, 82, 102, 121, 151

Division of labour

, 165–166

Domination

, 92ff., 137

by virtue of a constellation of interests

, 93, 104–105, 145

by virtue of authority

, 93

see also Authority

Droysen, Johann

, 7

Durkheim, Emile

, 181, 183

Economic action

, 83–84, 163–164

Economic order

, 84, 96, 99, 103, 148, 165

Economics

, 6, 19, 41, 44, 56, 161

Economic sociology

, 44, 82ff., 135, 161–162, 163ff.

Economy and Society, Weber’s plans for

, 23, 26, 77, 78, 135–136, 137, 148, 151, 162, 163, 179, 181, 182

Egyptian society

, 81, 120, 132, 170

Elections

, 98

Energetics

, 21

Engels, Friedrich

, 170

Ethnicity

, 91

Evangelical Social Union

, 8

Evolutionism

, 9

Feudalism

, 31, 60, 81, 93, 97, 125, 129, 169, 170–171

Fichte, Gottlieb

, 2

Franklin, Benjamin

, 73

Freyer, Hans

, 180

From Max Weber

, 182, 183

Functional analysis

, 9, 183

Geisteswissenschaften

, 4

General Economic History

, 163, 181

George, Stefan

, 22

German Democratic Party

, 8, 25

German industry and industrialism

, 3, 63

German politics

, 154ff.

German Sociological Society

, 1

German Sociology

, 183

Gerth, Hans

, 182

Giddens, Anthony

, 183

Goethe, Johan von

, 5

Gotlein, Eberhard

, 64

Gumplowicz, Ludwig

, 8

Habitual action

, 86, 94, 142–143

Handbook of Political Economy

, 23, 77–78

see also Outline of Social Economics

Hegel, Georg

, 2, 4

Hermeneutics

, 4

Hildebrand, Bruno

, 5

Hinduism

, 119, 120, 123, 124–125, 129ff., 133

Hitler, Adolf

, 180

Honigsheim, Paul

, 22

Household

, 87–88, 95, 165, 168, 169, 170

Humboldt, Wilhelm von

, 3

Idealist philosophy

, 2–3, 4, 7

Ideal types

, 21, 42, 54–55, 75

Indian religion and society

, 129ff., 173

Inner loneliness

, 70

Institutions and institutional order

, 84, 144

Intellectuals

, 112–113

Interpretive sociology

, 42, 56ff., 139ff.

Islam

, 109, 113, 134

Jaffé, Edgar

, 22, 41

Jaffé, Else affair with Max Weber

, 22–23, 25

Jaspers, Karl

, 22

Jellinek, Georg

, 7, 19, 22, 64

Jews

, 64, 75, 76, 106, 133, 180

Joint stock company

, 175

Judaism

, 74, 109, 113, 119, 120, 123, 131ff.

religion of Yahweh

, 108, 132–133

Junkers

, 3, 18, 33ff., 172

Kant, Immanuel

, 2, 53

Kathedersozialisten

, 7

Key Problems in Sociological Theory

, 183

Kirkegaard, Søren

, 16, 28

Knies, Karl

, 5, 19, 41, 50ff.

Knight, Frank

, 181

Labour, forms of

, 166

Lask, Emil

, 5

Law

, 7, 17, 44, 84–85, 94, 144, 176

Leadership in political parties

, 152–153, 155

Legal order

, 99ff.

Legitimate order

, 144, 151

see also Institutions and institutional order

Legitimation

, 93–94, 145

Life chances

, 89, 90

Life orders

, 82, 116

see also Economic order; Legal order; Political order

Lilenfeld, Pavel von

, 9

Limited liability

, 31

see also Corporations

List, Friedrich

, 5

Literati

, 126, 127, 128, 133

Lukács, Georgy

, 22

Luther, Martin

, 67–68, 71

Magic

, 82, 101, 107, 121, 128, 131

Main Currents in Sociological Thought

, 183

Mannheim, Karl

, 182

Market

, 84–85, 87, 137, 144, 145, 167–168

Marxism

, 6, 8, 27, 64, 65, 89, 100, 122, 169, 170, 183

Mass action

, 101

Max Weber. An Intellectual Portrait

, 183

Medieval trading companies and commerce

, 16, 28, 32ff., 75, 88–89, 172, 175

Meinecke, Friedrich

, 8

Menger, Carl

, 6, 52, 56, 161

Methodology in Weber

, 41ff.

Michels, Robert

, 22

Migrant labour

, 35

Mommsen, Theodor

, 13, 28

Money

, 85, 167

Music

, 1, 24, 114ff., 120, 121

Müller-Lyer, Franz

, 9

Nation

, 91–92

National Liberal Party

, 3, 8, 13, 16, 17, 63–64, 154

Nation state

, 154

Naumann, Friedrich

, 8, 17, 24, 36

Nazi Party

, 10, 180

New Liberalism

, 7

Nietzsche, Friedrich

, 5, 16, 27, 49, 64

Objective mind

, 2

Objectivity

, 46, 82, 159

Occupation

, 166

see also Calling

Oikos

, 29, 31, 32, 81, 89, 117

Oppenheimer, Franz

, 9

Organisation (Verband)

, 147, 164–165

Oriental societies

, 2, 81–82, 104, 122, 125, 131, 132, 170, 173, 177

Outline of Social Economics

, 78–79, 117, 120, 135, 161, 162

Pariah groups

, 75, 106, 134

see also Jews

Parliamentary government

, 3–4, 8

Parsons, Talcott

, 181

Partnerships

, 1

see also Limited liability

Patriarchal household and authority

, 95, 101–102, 108, 125, 170

Patrimonialism

, 93, 95, 96, 109, 126, 129, 132, 151

Plebiscitary leadership

, 153

see also Charismatic authority

Plessner, Helmuth

, 22

Policy

, 46ff., 159–160

Political parties

, 4, 6, 8, 98, 148, 152ff.

Politics

, 7, 8, 89, 96, 157–158

political order

, 96

Power

, 7–8, 89

Predestination

, 69

Priests

, 101, 107–108, 132–133

see also Brahmins, Literati

Progressive Party

, 8

Property

, 88, 90, 99, 148, 169

Prophets

, 110, 132

Protestant ethic

, 21, 120–121

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (articles and book)

, 26, 42, 63ff., 82, 121, 124, 131, 162, 174, 181

Protestantism

, 67, 109, 120, 177

Psychophysics

, 21

Puritanism

, 71, 73, 82, 131

Purposive-rational action

, 143–144, 164

Quakers

, 71

Rachfahl, Felix

, 74

Ranke, Leopold von

, 4, 51

Rational action

, 57–58, 82, 140–141

Rational authority

, 98, 102

Rationalisation

, 72, 76, 81–82, 84, 98, 100, 116–117, 121–122, 134, 151, 164

Regulatory groups

, 86

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

, 181

Religion. See Collected Essays on the Sociology of Religion; Baptists; Buddhism; Calvinism; Catholicism; Confucianism; Hinduism; Islam; Judaism; Protestantism; Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Quakers

Religions of compensation

, 112

Religious groups

, 106ff.

Rex, John

, 183

Rickert, Heinrich

, 5

Roman history, 1 agriculture and property law

, 16, 28ff., 80, 170

Roscher, Wilhelm

, 5, 7, 41, 47, 49, 50ff.

Russian revolution

, 2, 22, 155–156

Salvation

, 68, 69–70, 75, 108, 122ff., 130, 131, 133

Schelling, Friedrich

, 2

Schiller, Friedrich von

, 2

Schmoller, Gustav von

, 6, 17

Schäffle, Albert

, 8

Schönberg, Gustav

, 77

Science as a vocation

, 158–160

Sects

, 71, 111, 120

Selection

, 66, 146

Shils, Edward

, 182

Simmel, Georg

, 9–10, 22, 27, 45, 56

Slavery

, 81, 105

Smith, Adam

, 52

Social Democratic Party

, 8, 22, 27

Social economics

, 44, 45, 56, 135, 161–162

Social estate

, 89ff., 97, 98, 125, 137, 150

Social honour

, 90, 96

Social Liberal Party

, 16

Social mobility

, 149

Social sciences

, 5, 10, 45, 54

Sombart, Wernher

, 9–10, 21, 41, 42, 61, 64, 66, 73, 74, 75–76, 180

Spann, Othmar

, 180

Spencer, Herbert

, 8, 45

Spengler, Oswald

, 180

Spirit

, 2, 4–5, 9, 28

Spirit of capitalism

, 21, 64, 177

State

, 7–8, 24, 92, 147, 164–165

modern state

, 97–98, 167, 176

Status

, 86, 89–90, 105, 126, 129, 133, 148ff.

Status group. See Social estate

Stock exchange

, 1, 17, 28, 36ff., 86, 175

Taoism

, 128

Tawney, Richard

, 181

The Methodology of the Social Sciences

, 182

Theodicy

, 123

The Structure of Social Action

, 181, 183

The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation

, 181

Thiel, Hugo

, 17

Tobler, Mina infatuation with Max Weber

, 24, 114

Traditional action. See Habitual action

Traditionalism and traditional authority

, 71, 95, 101, 112, 124, 129, 130–131, 151, 164, 177

Treitschke, Heinrich von

, 7

Troeltsch, Ernst

, 19, 22, 110

Tönnies, Ferdinand

, 8, 9, 45, 60

Understanding (Verstehen)

, 21, 42, 58, 72, 139, 140

see also Interpretive sociology

Value judgements

, 47ff., 54, 82, 159–160

Value-rational action

, 143, 158, 164

Value relevant concepts

, 54

Verein für Sozialpolitik

, 6, 17

Vierkandt, Alfred

, 180

Vocation. See Calling; Occupation

Volksgeist

, 4, 49

Wagner, Adolph

, 6–7

Weber, Alfred

, 8, 19, 23, 25, 182

Weber, Marianne (nee Schnitger)

, 18, 25, 26

editing of Weber’s work

, 137–138, 179, 181, 182

Weber, Max

depressive illness

, 19ff.

education

, 15–16

family background and childhood

, 13ff.

independent scholar

, 21

marriage

, 18ff.

party activity

, 25

reception of his work

, 179ff.

return to academic life

, 24

sexuality

, 20, 25

views on sociology

, 9–10, 45–46, 135, 138ff.

wartime work

, 24, 25, 117, 119

working papers for Economy and Society

, 78–80, 116

See also Jaffé, Else; Tobler, Mina

Wiese, Leopold von

, 180

Windelband, Wilhelm

, 5, 19

World-rejecting religions

, 123

Wright Mills, C.

, 182

Wundt, Wilhelm

, 9