Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Max Weber's Economy and society I -- Overview of cha pter 1 -- Basic sociological concepts -- Overview of chapter 2 -- Basic sociological categories of economic action -- Overview of chapter 3 -- Types of rule -- Overview of chapter 4 -- Social rank and social class es.

Max Weber was the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century; Economy and Society is Weber's most famous work after The Protestant E thic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It consists of diverse essays that W eber was working on at the time of his death in 1920, ranging over subj ects in economics, politics, religion, public administration, and socio logy. The book was first published in German in two parts in the early 1920s, then in a more authoritative edition in the late 1950s. Economy and Society is a classic work of social theory, and is considered the f ounding text for modern social debates about action, rationality, burea ucracy and charisma, formal and material justice, religious beliefs, an d economic conduct. In this new translation of Part I, Keith Tribe, one of the English-speaking world's leading experts on Weber, aims to pres ent the clearest and most faithful translation yet. Tribe's translation is accompanied by commentary and notes that reflect the decades of sch olarship that have passed since Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich publish ed their English translation in 1968.-- Provided by publisher