Concept
Economy and Society
Overview
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (1921; German: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundriß der verstehenden Soziologie; or simply Economy and Society) is a book by political economist and sociologist Max Weber, published posthumously in Germany by his wife Marianne. Alongside The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), it is considered to be one of Weber's most important works. Extremely broad in scope, the book covers numerous themes including religion, economics, politics, public administration, and sociology. A complete translation of the work was not published in English until 1968.
In 1998, the International Sociological Association listed this work as the most important sociological book of the 20th century.
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The middle class had ceded all its _political_ positions to the feudal monarchy, but had intrenched itself all the more energetically in its _economic_ positions under the protection of the militaristic police state. The main currents of the last period, covering forty-five years, are: victorious capitalism, militarism erected on a capitalist foundation, a political reaction resulting from the intergrowth of feudal…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to Economy and Society; the term itself is not named.
In this latter case we come, in spite of the force theory, and the compulsory taxation theory and the special exchange value theory back again to the Marxian theory of value. The fixing of the value of a commodity by wages which is frequently confused by Adam Smith with the fixing of value by the time expended in labor has been, since the time of Ricardo, denounced by political economists and only to-day persists in…
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
Close in meaning to Economy and Society; the term itself is not named.
Our society, however, harbors in itself opposing interests. What is good for one class, is bad for another. Class selfishness clashes against class selfishness; class selfishness impairs the interests of the whole. To make Socialism possible, a social power has to arise in the midst of the antagonistic classes of capitalist society, a power objectively placed in a position to be interested in the establishment of…
Leon Trotsky, Our Revolution
Close in meaning to Economy and Society; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Economy and Society
Related ideas
- Social action
- Sociology
- Max Weber
- Politics
- Religion
- Mysticism
- Public administration
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Asceticism
- Ideal type
- Economics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Conservatism.