Max Weber: From History to Modernity - Hardcover

Turner, Profesor Bryan S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138141666 ISBN 13: 9781138141667

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This wide-ranging and assured book, written by one of the leading Weber scholars in the English-speaking world, shows us the many sides of Max Weber. The book provides an authoritative guide to the current burning issues in social theory, religion, rationalization, the body, modernization and capitalism. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in Weber's claim that the aim of sociology must be to explain what is distinctive about the times in which we live.

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About the Author:

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138141666
• ISBN 13: 9781138141667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284