Journal articles: 'WEBERIAN THEORY'

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Thompson, Paul, Randall Collins, and Johannes Weiss. "Weberian Sociological Theory." British Journal of Sociology 38, no. 3 (September 1987): 437. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/590703.

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Schroeter, Gerd, and Randall Collins. "Weberian Sociological Theory." Contemporary Sociology 16, no. 5 (September 1987): 760. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2069854.

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Roth, Guenther, and Randall Collins. "Weberian Sociological Theory." American Historical Review 92, no. 2 (April 1987): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1866627.

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Segre, Sandro. "A Weberian Theory of Time." Time & Society 9, no. 2-3 (June 2000): 147–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x00009002001.

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Dahms, Harry F. "Theory in Weberian Marxism: Patterns of Critical Social Theory in Lukács and Habermas." Sociological Theory 15, no. 3 (November 1997): 181–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00032.

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For Weberian Marxists, the social theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx are complementary contributions to the analysis of modern capitalist society. Combining Weber's theory of rationalization with Marx's critique of commodity fetishism to develop his own critique of reification, Georg Lukács contended that the combination of Marx's and Weber's social theories is essential to envisioning socially transformative modes of praxis in advanced capitalist society. By comparing Lukács ‘s theory of reification with Habermas's theory of communicative action as two theories in the tradition of Weberian Marxism, I show how the prevailing mode of “doing theory” has shifted from Marx's critique of economic determinism to Weber's idea of the inner logic of social value spheres. Today, Weberian Marxism can make an important contribution to theoretical sociology by reconstituting itself as a framework for critically examining prevailing societal definitions of the rationalization imperatives specific to purposive-rational social value spheres (the economy, the administrative state, etc.). In a second step, Weberian Marxists would explore how these value spheres relate to each other and to value spheres that are open to the type of communicative rationalization characteristic of the lifeworld level of social organization.

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Heugens, Pursey. "A Neo-Weberian Theory of the Firm." Organization Studies 26, no. 4 (April 2005): 547–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840605051471.

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Morkevičius, Vaidas, and Zenonas Norkus. "Šiuolaikinės Lietuvos klasinė struktūra: neovėberiška analizė." Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas 31, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 75–152. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/socmintvei.2012.2.393.

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Santrauka. Straipsnio tikslas – pritaikyti socialinės nelygybės ir politinių procesų pokomunistinėje Lietuvoje analizei Roberto Eriksono, Johno Goldthorpe’o ir Lucienne Portocarero (EGP) klasių teoriją, kuri tęsia Maxo Weberio socialinės struktūros analizės tradiciją. Pirmame skirsnyje analizuojamos priežastys, kodėl atkūrus Lietuvos nepriklausomybę Lietuvos sociologai beveik visiškai apleido tyrimų barą, kurį sociologijos klasikai laikė pagrindiniu, – visuomenės socialinės struktūros analizę. Aptariami dviejų tyrimų, skirtų pokomunistinės Lietuvos socialinės struktūros analizei (Rūtos Brazienės disertacijos ir Arvydo Matulionio vadovaujamo autorių kolektyvo parašytos monografijos) rezultatai, palyginama indukcinė ir dedukcinė socialinės struktūros analizės metodologija, išryškinami dedukcinės metodologijos privalumai. Antrame skirsnyje išdėstoma EGP klasių teorija, pateikiant ją kaip kūrybišką klasikinių Maxo Weberio socialinės struktūros idėjų tąsą. Išryškinami Maxo Weberio ir Karlo Marxo klasių sampratų skirtumai, o EGP klasių teorija palyginama su jos pagrindinėmis šiuolaikinėmis alternatyvomis: neomarksistine Eriko Wrighto klasių teorija, orientuota į išnaudojimo santykių analizę, ir amerikietiškąja socialinės stratifikacijos analizės koncepcija, orientuota į individualaus socialinio ekonominio statuso (SES) matavimus. Trečiame skirsnyje neovėberiškai analizuojama pokomunistinės Lietuvos klasinė struktūra, pateikiant jos 11, 7, 5 ir 3 EGP klasių modelius. Šiam tikslui panaudojami 2009 m. pabaigoje atliktos reprezentatyvios Europos socialinio tyrimo (EST) Lietuvos gyventojų apklausos duomenys. Remiantis diachroniniais ir sinchroniniais palyginimais bei istorine analize išryškinami šios struktūros bendrieji (lyginant su panašiomis į Lietuvą šalimis) ir saviti nacionaliniai bruožai. Paskutiniajame skirsnyje modifikuotas 7 EGP klasių modelis pritaikomas statistiškai nagrinėjant vėberiškai apibrėžiamą (kaip „gero gyvenimo šansų“ nelygaus pasiskirstymo) socialinę nelygybę Lietuvoje, o taip pat bandant nustatyti (pasitelkiant statistinę atitikties analizę) klasinės priklausomybės įtaką politinėms orientacijoms bei elgsenai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Eriksono-Goldthorpe-Portocarero (EGP) klasių teorija, pokomunistinės Lietuvos socialinė struktūra ir politika, gero gyvenimo šansų nelygybė, atitikties analizė.Key words: Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero (EGP) class theory, ABSTRACTTHE CLASS STRUCTURE OF CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIA: A NEO-WEBERIAN ANALYSISThis article analyses social inequality and political processes in post-Communist Lithuania, using the neo-Weberian class theory of Robert Erikson, John Goldthorpe and Lucienne Portocarero (EGP). The opening section considers why the analysis of social structure, which was a central concern in classical sociology, has been so neglected in Lithuanian sociology since the restoration of independence. There are just two exceptions to this trend, discussed in the same section – Rūta Brazienė’s 2002 thesis and the 2005 volume edited by Arvydas Matulionis. The first part also compares inductive (data-driven) and deductive (theory-driven) methodologies of social structure analysis to substantiate the advantages of the latter for this article’s empirical analysis. The second part outlines EGP class theory, considered as a creative continuation of Weber’s classical analysis of social structure, and as a genuine alternative to Marx’s theory of classes and class struggle. EGP class theory is compared with two other approaches – Erik Olin Wright’s neo-Marxist class theory, which emphasises exploitation relations between classes, and American social stratification analysis, which focuses on the measurement of socio-economic status (SES). The third section offers a neo-Weberian examination of post-Communist Lithuania’s class structure, represented by four different EGP class types. Diachronic and synchronic comparisons and historical analysis are used to point out the features of Lithuanian class structure that are shared with other similar countries and those features that are nationally specific. To this end, data from Round 4 of the European Social Survey in Lithuania (conducted at the end of 2009) is used. In the last section, which applies statistical methods of correspondence analysis, a slightly modified EGP class model is used to explore manifestations of social inequality (conceived in Weberian terms as an unequal distribution of ‘life chances’), as well as the voting and ideological orientations of the Lithuanian electorate.

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Hilmy, Masdar. "Radical Islamism as a Mode of Production." TEOSOFI: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam 9, no. 1 (June 2, 2019): 81–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/teosofi.2019.9.1.81-108.

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This article attempts to provide a breakthrough which I call mode of production theory. This theory will be employed to analyze the contemporary phenomenon of radical Islamism. The mode of production theory is meant to bridge the two clashing theoretical paradigms in social sciences and humanities, i.e., Weberian and Marxian. Despite its bridging nature, the paper argues that the two cannot be merged within one single thread. This is because each paradigm has its own epistemological basis which is irreconcilable to one another. Mostly adapted from Marx’s theory, the current theory of the mode of production covers five interrelated aspects, namely social, political, economic, cultural, and symbolic structures. If Marx’s mode of production theory heavily relies on a material and economic basis, the theory used in this paper accommodates cultural and symbolic structures that are Weberian in nature. Although the two paradigms can operate together, the strength of structure (Marxian) overpowers the strength of culture (Weberian). This paper further argues that such cultural-based aspects as ideology, norms, and values play as mobilizing factors under a big schematic dominant structure in the rise and development of the radical Islamist groups.

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Murphy, Raymond. "Weberian Closure Theory: A Contribution to the Ongoing Assessment." British Journal of Sociology 37, no. 1 (March 1986): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/591049.

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Smith, David Norman, and Walter L. Wallace. "A Weberian Theory of Human Society: Structure and Evolution." Social Forces 74, no. 3 (March 1996): 1128. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2580401.

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Iverson, Noel, and Walter L. Wallace. "A Weberian Theory of Human Society: Structure and Evolution." Contemporary Sociology 24, no. 6 (November 1995): 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2076734.

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Kataev, D. V. "Max Weber and the New Critical Theory of Hartmut Rosa: Updating the Classics." Sociology of Power 32, no. 4 (December 2020): 146–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-4-146-166.

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The article discusses a key issue for Russian and international Max Weber Studies: the epistemological possibilities and place of Weberian sociology in modern social theory. Discussion articles by well-known Russian scientists — who sharply criticized the actualizing direction of Weberian studies in general, and the religious, cultural, and sociological orientation in particular — are contrasted with the re-actualization and rethinking of key Weberian themes in the “New Critical Theory” of the influential German sociologist Hartmut Rosa. Such a projection will make it possible, on the one hand, to thematize the axiomatic assertion about the heuristic rather than concrete-content relevance of the classics; on the other hand, it will provide an opportunity to read Weber as a macrosociologist. In the original, criticized, and often rejected sociology of Rosa, Weber appears not only as a predecessor whose mention enhances the relevance of the new theoretical framework, but, above all, as an analyst and diagnostician of early modernity. Weber’s main ideas and theoretical constructions are organically built into Rosa’s methodological framework: analysis-diagnosis-praxis. The analysis of rationalization as a universal historical process of modernity in Weber’s sociology is rethought by Rosa as expansion and acceleration; disenchantment becomes a diagnosis of modernity and is recoded into alienation, while the concept of charisma is transformed into the key concept of resonance.

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Fathabadi, Jassem. "A Weberian Framework for Critical Discourse Analysis." Issues in Social Science 10, no. 2 (December 25, 2022): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/iss.v10i2.20606.

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Discourse analysis, since its emergence, has gone through various changes and modifications, especially in the trend coming to prominence as critical discourse analysis. This trend has always manifested the impact of brilliant ideas by great intellectuals from different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, and social theory. Max Weber is one of the towering figures in the history of sociology whose method of conducting sociological analysis, especially the concept of ideal types, has not been adequately utilized in discourse studies. Throughout years, critical discourse analysis has been criticized on account of its founding assumptions, vagueness, preferences for a particular social theory, lack of rigor, unsystematic nature, lack of methodological consistency, nontransparent research procedures, etc. Simply stated, using its theories in conducting actual analysis has always been a problem for researchers. This study is an attempt to propose a framework using Weber’s ideas and methodology which enables researchers to utilize discourse theories in practice. The Weberian framework does not reject other theories within the field as it is in line with an orientation termed hyper-differentiation of theories in which theories coexist rather than compete with each other.

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Santos-Silva, Antônio, and Antonio Carvalho Neto. "Uma análise weberiana da gestação das estruturas de dominação em sindicatos." Revista de Administração da UFSM 13, no. 1 (March 29, 2020): 01. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1983465928977.

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This paper presents the report of a survey that aimed to investigate the role of union leaders in gestation structures of domination in Brazilian unions adopting an interpretative Weberian analysis. Weberian concepts, such as domination, social relation and legitimacy were articulated to explain, in a qualitative approach, the internal social relations within trade unions. The exploratory analysis of 26 interviews conceded by trade union leaders allowed the identification of five groups of orders that constitute maxims and rules of action among the union leaders. This paper focuses on the documental analysis of 115 documents looking for evidence of the domination structures genesis. The documents revealed that these structures go back to the trade union training process, especially from the decade 1970s. The data analysis was structured in five groups of orders: ethics; political repression; ideology; mistrust between parts; and validity of laws. The study concluded by the pertinence of the adoption of the interpretative Weberian approach to explain the action of administrative staff (as in Weber, the influential individuals on the decision making process within the organization) related to the making and preservation of the structures of domination, confirming the Weberian theory.

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Halperin, Sandra. "Shadowboxing: Weberian historical sociology vs state-centric international relations theory." Review of International Political Economy 5, no. 2 (January 1998): 327–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/096922998347598.

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Semiglazov, G. S. "The Concept of the State in Weber’s and Landauer’s Works: an Analysis of the Weberian Definition from the Perspective of Anarchist Theory." Sociology of Power 32, no. 4 (December 2020): 123–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-4-123-145.

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The article focuses on the concept of the state in the works of the German sociologist M. Weber and his contemporary, the anarchist G. Landauer. Specifically, it is commonly thought that Weber has a unique interpretation of the state, its nature, and inalienable characteristics. This Weberian approach did not fit into any of the traditions that existed at that time in Germany (for example, represented by H. Kelsen, G. Jellinek, and O. von Gierke). However, the author of the article tries to demonstrate that three main Weberian aspects of the state — 1) the monopoly on legitimate physical violence, 2) the relationship of domination, which is accompanied by a minimum desire to obey, and 3) the chance for the regular reproducibility of these relationships — are consonant with Landauer’s concept of the state. This discovered conceptual affinity allows one to look at Weber’s sociology from new angles, without being impacted by the personal beliefs of the German scientist, who very critically treated anarchism as a socio-political movement. In the final section of the paper, the author discusses the modern project of “anarchist sociology”, which also uses Weberian methodology. The paper argues that “anarchist sociology” might be a promising social science with ts unique vision of several key sociological topics, such as domination, power, or social inequality.

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Fabrykant, Marharyta. "Weber’s Nationalism vs. Weberian Methodological Individualism: Implications for Contemporary Social Theory." Changing Societies & Personalities 3, no. 2 (2019): 124–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2019.3.2.066.

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Newman DiPadova, Laurie. "Towards a Weberian management theory: lessons from Lowell Bennion’s neglected masterwork." Journal of Management History (Archive) 2, no. 1 (March 1996): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13552529610105672.

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Segady, Thomas W. "Rationality and irrationality: New directions in Weberian theory, critique, and research." Sociological Spectrum 8, no. 1 (January 1988): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732173.1988.9981841.

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Shaw, Carl K. Y. "Hegel's Theory of Modern Bureaucracy." American Political Science Review 86, no. 2 (June 1992): 381–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1964227.

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I make three contentions. First, Hegel's theory of bureaucracy is as comprehensive as Weber's ideal type of bureaucratic organization. I argue this by making a sociological reformulation of Hegel's model and comparing it with the Weberian paradigm. Second, Hegel adapts the Aristotelian category of practical judgment in characterizing the bureaucratic activity as subsumption. This characterization is contrary to the dominant view that bureaucracy embodies mere instrumental rationality and solves some difficulties in Hegel's political thought. Third, Hegel's conceptualization can contribute to a liberal theory of bureaucracy that apprehends modern political reality more adequately than the skepticism of classical liberals and contemporary libertarians about bureaucratic organization.

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Bensman, Joseph. "Mediterranean and total Bureaucracies: Some additions to the Weberian theory of Bureaucracy." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (September 1987): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01384922.

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Maslovskiy, M. V. "Max Weber’s Analysis of Plebiscitary Leadership and the Debate on Multiple Modernities." Sociology of Power 32, no. 4 (December 2020): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2020-4-107-122.

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The article considers Max Weber’s model of plebiscitary leadership and historical examples of plebiscitary democracy. It is argued that there is no clear distinction between plebiscitary democracy and dictatorship inWeber’s writings. As Stefan Breuer demonstrates, such a distinction allows us to broaden the application of Weberian concepts. Plebiscitary elements can be seen in the political life of non-Western states, which have been discussed from the multiple modernities perspective. However, while that perspective develops the Weberian sociological tradition, its representatives mostly do not use the concept of plebiscitary leadership. Thus, Shmuel Eisenstadt draws primarily on Weber’s sociology of religion in his analysis of different types of modernity. Specifically, Eisenstadt considers the impact of civilizational legacies on political processes in India and Latin America. Peter Wagner discusses the relevance of Weber’s rationalization thesis and theory of capitalism rather than the concepts of Weberian political sociology. In his study of democratization in Brazil and South Africa, Wagner emphasizes the progressive character of political changes but does not consider the possibility of a reversal of these processes. The article argues that the contemporary reconstruction of Weber’s model of plebiscitary leadership can complement the analyses of democratization in non-Western societies from the multiple modernities perspective.

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Lenard, G. T. "A Loose Cannon: Oliver North and Weberian Charisma." Journal of Popular Culture 21, no. 4 (March 1988): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1988.00129.x.

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Yiğit, Ali. "A Weberian Reading of Henry James’s The Ambassadors." Journal of Literary Studies 37, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2021.1997162.

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Huffschmid, Jörg, and Elmar Altvater. "Ein Gespräch über »politischen Kapitalismus«, »Stamokap«, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und vieles andere." PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 28, no. 113 (December 1, 1998): 651–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v28i113.834.

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Recently the development of the East-European transformation economies was analysed in (Weberian) terms of »political capitalism« (see Melanie Tatur and Jadwiga Staniszkis in PROKLA 112). This approach shows some affinities to the neo-leninist theory of »state monopolist capitalism«. In the seventies, Jörg Huffschmid was an important (western) scholar of the last. He is interviewed by Elmar Altvater.

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Marrades Millet, Julián. "Sobre la ‘normalidad’ de Auschwitz." Quaderns de Filosofia 7, no. 1 (July 15, 2020): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/qfia.7.1.16081.

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Resumen: Partiendo de la hipótesis, avanzada por Horkheimer y Adorno, de que Auschwitz era una posibilidad inscrita en la racionalidad instrumental de la civiliza- ción moderna, el artículo analiza algunos mecanismos de la estructura de empresa heredada del industrialismo que pudieron contribuir a ‘normalizar’ lo anormal en el Holocausto nazi. Esta argumentación se desarrolla mediante la articulación de la concepción weberiana de la burocracia moderna con la teoría de la moral de colaboración de Günther Anders. Abstract: Starting from the hypothesis, advanced by Horkheimer and Adorno, that Auschwitz was a possibility inscribed in the instrumental rationality of modern civilization, the article analyzes some mechanisms of the company structure inherited from industrialism that could contribute to ‘normalize’ the abnormal in the Nazi Holo- caust. This argument is developed through the articulation of the Weberian concep- tion of modern bureaucracy with the Günther Anders’ theory of collaborative moral. Palabras clave: Holocausto, burocracia, medialidad, conformismo, moral de empresa, Weber, Anders, Bauman. Keywords: Holocaust, bureaucracy, mediality, conformism, company moral, Weber, Anders, Bauman.

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Nolan, Patrick D., and Ronald M. Glassman. "Democracy and Despotism in Primitive Societies: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Political Theory." Contemporary Sociology 16, no. 5 (September 1987): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2069769.

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Gustafson, Paul M., and Ronald M. Glassman. "Democracy and Despotism in Primitive Societies: A Neo-Weberian Approach to Political Theory." Sociological Analysis 50, no. 1 (1989): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3710927.

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Levy, Moshe. "Toward a Weberian theory of gambling: the rationalization of legal gambling in Israel." International Gambling Studies 10, no. 3 (December 2010): 207–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2010.516761.

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Zarkovic-Rakic, Jelena. "Bureaucratic behavior: A review of the theory and its application to Serbian public administration." Panoeconomicus 54, no. 2 (2007): 235–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/pan0702235z.

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A professional and competent public administration is necessary for successful transition from a socialist, centrally planned economy to a functioning market democracy. The difficulty lies in building an organized and effective civil service sector. This paper gives a brief overview of formal bureaucratic reasoning, beginning with Niskanen?s theory, followed by the principal-agent model. The "Weberian state hypothesis", which provides an alternative view of bureaucracies in less developed countries, is subsequently explored. Finally, the currant state of Serbian public administration is described, along with a discussion of challenges to be addressed in the future.

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Shivakumar, Dhananjai. "The Pure Theory as Ideal Type: Defending Kelsen on the Basis of Weberian Methodology." Yale Law Journal 105, no. 5 (March 1996): 1383. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/797179.

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Ozhiganov, Edward. "The Controversy of Weber: Cultural Sociology, Neoliberalism and Theory of Domination." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 19, no. 2 (2020): 122–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-2-122-142.

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The article analyzes the most significant properties of the dispute about Weber caused by attempts to “reconstruct” Weberian heritage in cultural-anthropological and liberal “paradigms”. It appears that Weber's theory of domination causes an implicit tension, which calls the canonization of Weber as a “classic” of institutionalized sociology into question. The cultural-anthropological “reconstruction” of Weber’s heritage is characterized by meta-theorizing on the basis of conceptual universalia, which fundamentally contradicts the main provisions of Weber’s understanding (interpretative) sociology in both the substantive and methodological aspects. The “paradigm” of the neoliberal utopia split into two camps: the former ignores Weber’s understanding of sociology as a scientific discipline, while the latter, is characterized by attempts to “distill” his legacy for the needs of the so-called new economic sociology.

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Sheehan, Duncan, and TT Arvind. "Private law theory and taxonomy: reframing the debate." Legal Studies 35, no. 3 (September 2015): 480–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lest.12075.

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The aim of this paper is to reframe the taxonomy debate which has, in recent years, come to dominate private law theory. We argue that the debate to date has been flawed by two fundamental mistakes. First, little attention has been paid to how legal taxonomies are actually used. This, we argue, is regrettable: how we build a taxonomy depends on why we build a taxonomy, and a clearer focus on this question produces an approach that is very different from the approaches that currently dominate private law theory. Secondly, both sides in the debate have misunderstood what legal concepts are, and hence tend to misuse them. We argue that legal concepts are Weberian ideal types, and use philosophical theories of concepts to put forward a very different understanding of how concepts acquire content and are used in the legal system. Putting these together, we argue for a far more developmental, and historically informed, approach to taxonomy and to legal concepts generally.

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Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar. "Music Theory Pedagogy in the Nineteenth Century." Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 63–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9534139.

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Abstract What characterized conservatory music theory pedagogy in nineteenth-century Europe? This article discusses the traditions of music theory pedagogy associated with the conservatories in Paris, Vienna, and Leipzig, specifically focusing on the middle of the nineteenth century (ca. 1830–70). In the first section, the characteristics of the three individual traditions are discussed separately. The second section compares these traditions from three perspectives: theoretical framework, pedagogical approach, and historical legacy. Although the traditions are different on several central points (e.g., ties to Italian partimento pedagogy in Paris, to Ramellian fundamental bass in Vienna, and to Weberian Roman numeral analysis in Leipzig), they also have some fundamental similarities that drew the borders—the defining limits—of conservatory music theory. The author argues that in the nineteenth century the idea of music theory as a primarily written discipline (centered on textbooks and written exercises and largely separated from musical performance) became a central element of these general characteristics of music theory pedagogy that would be taken for granted and accepted as self-evident across institutional traditions.

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Ciepley, David. "Democracy despite voter ignorance: A Weberian reply to Somin and Friedman." Critical Review 13, no. 1-2 (January 1999): 191–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08913819908443529.

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Dowd, Timothy J. "Culture and commodifictation: technology and structural power in the early US recording industry." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 22, no. 1/2/3 (February 1, 2002): 106–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443330210789979.

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Draws on Neo‐Weberian theory to argue that commodification is itself a cultural process, whilst not discounting the potentially negative effect of commercialisation. Examines product conception in the early US recording industry citing three disparate periods. Shows that in the late 1870s, recording firms sold and leased phonographs to entrepreneurs for public exhibitions, the the late 1880s firms leased phonographs and graphophones for dictation purpose and in the 1890s, firms exploited the phonograph by offering musical recordings. Concludes that structural power helped shape the product concepts of the industry.

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Ramos, Conrado, and Alejandro Milanesi. "The neo-Weberian state and the neodevelopmentalist strategies in Latin America: the case of Uruguay." International Review of Administrative Sciences 86, no. 2 (June 30, 2018): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852318763525.

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This article seeks to contribute to the development of the neo-Weberian theory of public administration by making it travel to the Latin American context. We argue that this model of public administration reform, identified in continental European states, tends to be present in some Latin American countries that have followed neodevelopmentalist models of economic development. The neo-Weberian political strategy promotes a public sector modernization that enhances its steering and coordination capacities which is functional to a neodevelopmental view that aims to rebuild the state’s central role in leading economic growth and social cohesiveness. Yet, the public management model that is implanted resembles an ‘imperfect’ neo-Weberianism due to the institutional deficiencies of these countries and the difficulties in providing a clear reform script. We provide this link by decoding the main outlines of the public management model in Uruguay in the context of the reforms implemented by the Frente Amplio.Points for practitionersThe article demonstrates two central points. First, that the processes of public sector reform are usually linked to other broader development strategies and to calculations of political feasibility. This can explain to some extent the options taken by politicians. Second, public sector reforms are often a combination of multiple administrative doctrines. This poses the risk of being unsystematic, incoherent or even contradictory.

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Pereira Lopes, Miguel. "Rebuilding Lisbon in the aftermath of the 1755 earthquake." Journal of Management History 20, no. 3 (June 3, 2014): 278–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-07-2013-0032.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on available data regarding the historical event of the major Lisbon earthquake of 1755 in order to understand the governance structure that was set to rebuild the city of Lisbon, as well as to elaborate on Max Weber’s theory of authority. Design/methodology/approach – The present study aims to extend our knowledge on the role of leadership in organizational transformation, by examining the authority structure of governance in the aftermath of a major catastrophic event, using the study of an extreme case to generate new management theory. Findings – The study founded evidence that the successful rebuilding of Lisbon after the earthquake was accompanied by a certain kind of governance structure that included an authority structure that simultaneously incorporated Weber’s authority types of charisma, tradition and rationality; and there was a clear distinction between the roles of each kind of authority, as well as the inviolable respect and sacredness of each other’s terrain that seems to lead to that effectiveness. Research limitations/implications – It is possible that the historical conditions in which this social transformation took place might not be repeatable in today’s context, but the analysis of such an extreme case of destruction and rebuilding evidences that the “atomistic” approach of Max Weber on authority can be enriched with a “molecular” approach that, at the same time, helps to further develop the concept of “shared leadership” by analyzing it from a Weberian point of view. Practical implications – Today’s organizations should analyze their governance structure and management staff from a “molecular” Weberian perspective, if they want to achieve major transformations. Originality/value – The study further develops Max Weber’s theory of authority and discusses it regarding a “shared leadership” perspective.

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Maslovskiy, Mikhail. "[Rev.] Ionin L.G. The Drama of Max Weber’s Life. Moscow: Izdatel’skii dom “Delo” RANKHiGS publ., 2022." Sociological Journal 28, no. 3 (September 29, 2022): 184–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/socjour.2022.28.3.9158.

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This is a review of Leonid G. Ionin’s book devoted to Max Weber’s life and work. The book presents certain facts from Weber’s biography that are not widely known to the Russian audience. The author of the book focuses on Weber’s relationships with the people surrounding him. Aside from that, the author analyzes some elements of Weberian sociology while defining the influence of Protestant ethic on modern capitalism, as well as rationalization theory and the typology of domination. It is argued in the review that Ionin’s book makes an important contribution to the development of Max Weber studies in Russia.

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Zisook, Jonathan J. "Disenchantment of the world: Weber, Judaism, and Maimonides." Journal of Classical Sociology 17, no. 3 (February 2, 2017): 173–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x17691433.

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One of the central comparative-historical features of Max Weber’s sociology of religion is his theory of disenchantment, whereby magical forms of social action come to be eclipsed by religious forms. This article explicates Weber’s theory of disenchantment, underscoring his original distinction between magic and religion, while emphasizing the unique and often underappreciated position Judaism occupies in Weber’s theory. I accord special significance to the philosopher Maimonides as a medieval expositor of an ideal typically disenchanted form of Judaism. I apply Weber’s theory of disenchantment as a framework for understanding two central features of Maimonides’ intellectual legacy: (1) Maimonides’ codification of Jewish law; and (2) Maimonides’ philosophical and sociohistorical rationalizations of Biblical commandments. In so doing, I situate Maimonides within the broader discourse of sociology of religion and extend a Weberian analysis of Judaism into the medieval period, demonstrating that the role of Judaism in the historical development of “Western” rationality is not alone a product of antiquity as Weber contended.

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Klein, Steven, and Cheol-Sung Lee. "Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society: The Politics of Forward and Backward Infiltration." Sociological Theory 37, no. 1 (March 2019): 62–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0735275119830451.

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This article develops a conceptual framework to theorize the processes of mutual penetration between civil society, the state, and the economy, where incumbents and challengers continuously formulate new strategies against each other. We criticize the prevailing Weberian and Tocquevillian concepts of civil society, and then, drawing on research in social movements and comparative political economy, propose a new framework: the politics of forward and backward infiltration. Under each form of infiltration, we delineate three submodes: the politics of influence, the politics of substitution, and the politics of occupation, which correspond to strategies for discursive influence, functional replacement, and institutional takeover, respectively. We challenge the exclusive focus on the politics of influence as inadequate for analyzing these processes, while highlighting the other two modes as necessary additions. Finally, we elucidate the implications of our theory of forward and backward infiltration for the study of civil society and participatory democracy more generally.

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Feldman, Stephen M. "An Interpretation of Max Weber's Theory of Law: Metaphysics, Economics, and the Iron Cage of Constitutional Law." Law & Social Inquiry 16, no. 02 (1991): 205–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1991.tb00919.x.

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Among legal scholars, Anthony T. Kronman and David M. Trubek have provided the leading interpretations of Weber's theory of law. Kronman and Trubek agree on two important points: Weber's theory is fundamentally contradictory, and Weber's theory relates primarily to private law subjects such as contracts. This article contests both of these points. Building on a foundation of Weber's neo-Kantian metaphysics and his sociological categories of economic action, this article shows that Weber's theory of law is not fundamentally inconsistent; rather it explores the inconsistencies that are inherent within Western society itself, including its legal systems. Furthermore, Weber's insights can be applied to modern constitutional jurisprudence. Weberian theory reveals that modern constitutional law is riddled with irreconcilable tensions between process and substance—between formal and substantive rationality. In the context of racial discrimination cases involving equal protection and the Fifteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court's acceptance of John Hart Ely's theory of representation-reinforcement demonstrates the Court's resolute pursuit of formal rationality, which insures that the substantive values and needs of minorities will remain unsatisfied.

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HARDING, ALAN. "Review Article: North Urban Political Economy, Urban Theory and British Research." British Journal of Political Science 29, no. 4 (September 1999): 673–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123499000320.

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In 1976, when European debates within urban theory were dominated by neo-Marxist and neo-Weberian approaches to cities as sites for the provision of social and welfare services, the very different notion of ‘the city as growth machine’ slipped into the US urban studies lexicon with the publication of Harvey Molotch's article of the same name. In 1983, the year in which Castells brought the radical phase of European urban studies to a halt with a famous warning against ‘the useless construction of abstract grand theory’, the concept of an urban regime had a similarly unobtrusive birth when the phrase was used by Fainstein and Fainstein to describe ‘the circle of powerful elected officials and top administrators’ in US city government. Had the story ended there it is unlikely that the world – especially outside North America – would have heard much more of urban regimes and growth machines. As it has turned out, though, from the late 1980s onwards urban scholars have hardly seemed able to hear enough about these two approaches within US urban political economy.

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Hunter Blair, Hazel J. "Trinitarian Hagiography in Late Medieval England: Rewriting St Robert of Knaresborough in Latin Verse." Studies in Church History 57 (May 21, 2021): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/stc.2021.5.

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The Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives (or Trinitarian Order) is one of the least studied continental religious groups to have expanded into thirteenth-century England. This article examines shifting notions of Trinitarian redemption in late medieval England through the prism of the order's writing about Yorkshire hermit St Robert of Knaresborough (d. 1218). Against the Weberian theory of the routinization of charisma, it demonstrates that Robert's inspirational sanctity was never bound too rigidly by his Trinitarian hagiographers, who rather co-opted his unstable charisma in distinct yet complementary ways to facilitate institutional reinvention and spiritual flourishing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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Portis, E. B. "Weberian Sociological Theory. By Randall Collins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xi, 356p. $42.50, cloth; $14.95, paper)." American Political Science Review 81, no. 1 (March 1987): 259–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1960791.

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Gill, Timothy M. "Sociological theory and US foreign policy in the 21st century." Current Sociology 66, no. 1 (November 17, 2016): 128–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392116678441.

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In recent decades, several sociologists have moved beyond grand theories of international relations, and empirically examined the motivations of US foreign policy leading into the 21st century. This article discusses the work of three political sociologists who have examined US foreign policy from three prominent perspectives: Michael Mann, William Robinson, and Julian Go. Working from a neo-Weberian perspective, Mann highlights the rise of neoconservatism within the US government that has encouraged foreign expansion. From a neo-Marxist perspective, Robinson emphasizes the importance of transnational capitalist class interests, including the promotion of neoliberal policies, on US foreign policy. And working from a world-systems perspective, Go underscores how the US is a hegemon in decline attempting to regain its imperial footing through military aggression. While these researchers cover much ground and raise important questions, their perspectives also contain several blindspots that future work on issues of US foreign policy could address. Most importantly, these three theoretical perspectives have neglected the importance of ideology in making sense of contemporary US foreign policy, and this article argues that future work should more intensively examine how ideology influences foreign policymaking in the US.

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Burrows, Roger, and Tim Butler. "Middle Mass and the Pitt: A Critical Review of Peter Saunders's Sociology of Consumption." Sociological Review 37, no. 2 (May 1989): 338–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1989.tb00033.x.

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This review provides critical commentary on the sociology of consumption recently developed by Peter Saunders in the new edition of his Social Theory and the Urban Question and elsewhere. Comment is made on the politics of socialized consumption, the sociology of consumption sector cleavages and the concept of a privatized mode of consumption. Note is also made of the methodological critique of realism and the assertion of a Weberian alternative which underpins the contribution. It is argued that although the approach provides some insights it tends to get locked into a series of unproducive conceptual and methodological polarities in its attempt to undermine the supposed hegemonic position of Marxism within contemporary urban studies.

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Maslovski, Mikhail. "Max Weber's Concept of Patrimonialism and the Soviet System." Sociological Review 44, no. 2 (May 1996): 294–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1996.tb00426.x.

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The concept of patrimonial domination was at first underutilized in western social science and then often used without proper clarification of its methodological basis. When the Soviet system was characterized as patrimonial, conceptual analysis was also generally lacking. In the article an attempt is made to fill in the gap between Weberian sociological theory and historical studies of Soviet society. It is argued that, although the concept of patrimonialism is applicable to the Stalinist system, this concept is not sufficient for the description of the Soviet state throughout its history. It is assumed in the article that Weber's concept of Beamtenmherrschaft might be more appropriate for the analysis of the post-Stalinist political regime in the USSR.

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Fernández Vega, Juan L. "Rüsen’s Legacy of Synthetic Historicism." Journal of the Philosophy of History 14, no. 1 (April 3, 2019): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341414.

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Abstract The English translation of Jörn Rüsen’s Historik is a major event in the global community of the theory of history. Few contemporary thinkers in this field have been so systematic and comprehensive as Rüsen. This book, rendered as Evidence and Meaning, is the outcome of a whole life devoted to the renewal of German historicism. Rüsen’s contribution mirrors the great debates held in West Germany since the 1960s about the theory of history (Historik), discussions that prompted a conjoint reassessment of the old dispute between historicist academia and Marxist or Weberian sociologism, including the consequences of the linguistic turn. Rüsen has opened the German historicist tradition toward spaces of compromise with the Western “scientific” or more generalizing history. Furthermore, Rüsen’s synthetic historicism, with its insistence on praxis, might be taken as a case of convergent evolution between German and American syntheses of historical life and historical knowledge.

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Wedel, Janine R. "From Power Elites to Influence Elites: Resetting Elite Studies for the 21st Century." Theory, Culture & Society 34, no. 5-6 (July 10, 2017): 153–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276417715311.

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The dominant theory of elite power, grounded in Weberian bureaucracy, has analyzed elites in terms of stable positions at the top of enduring institutions. Today, many conditions that spawned these stable ‘command posts’ no longer prevail, and elite power thus warrants rethinking. This article advances an argument about contemporary ‘influence elites’. The way they are organized and the modus operandi they employ to wield influence enable them to evade public accountability, a hallmark of a democratic society. Three cases are presented, first to investigate changes in how elites operate and, second, to examine varying configurations in which the new elites are organized. The cases demonstrate that influence elites intermesh hierarchies and networks, serve as connectors, and coordinate influence from multiple, moving perches, inside and outside official structures. Their flexible and multi-positioned organizing modes call for reconsidering elite theory and grappling with the implications of these elites for democratic society.

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