title: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
author:  Max Weber 
description: "Weber is essential to an understanding of sociological theory, and this is the quintessential Weber--a gold mine of insights into the workings of society."--Leslie Wasson, University of South Florida<br /><br />"Still the best compilation of texts by Weber."--Peter Jelavich, University of Texas, Austin<br /><br />"Wonderful....A classic for teaching modern EUuropean intellectual and cultural history."--Marjorie Beale, University of California<br /><br />"An excellent collection of papers from Max Weber. This is must reading for students of sociology."--Sronja Szelenyi, Stanford University<br /><br />"Still the single best book by and about Max Weber."--Terry Boswell, Emory University<br /><br />"The writings selected are representative of a wide range of the author's exceedingly verstaile and comprehensive studies."--Talcott Parsons, Annals of the American Academy of Political Science<br /><br />"A good and accessible compilation of Weber's major themes."--Laurel Kearns, Agnes Scott College<br /><br />"A good, solid anthology; wide-ranging in its contents and should be standard in many sociology courses."--Gregory O'Dea, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga<br /><br />"Superb collection of key texts!"--Szonja Szelenyi, Stanford University
zlib_text: MAX WEBER MATTERS 
  
  Rethinking Classical Sociology
  Series Editor: David Chalcraft, University of Derby, UK
  This series is designed to capture, reﬂect and promote the major changes that 
  are occurring in the burgeoning ﬁeld of classical sociology. The series publishes 
  monographs, texts and reference volumes that critically engage with the established 
  ﬁgures in classical sociology as well as encouraging examination of thinkers and 
  texts from within the ever-widening canon of classical sociology. Engagement 
  derives from theoretical and substantive advances within sociology and involves 
  critical dialogue between contemporary and classical positions. The series reﬂects 
  new interests and concerns including feminist perspectives, linguistic and cultural 
  turns, the history of the discipline, the biographical and cultural milieux of texts, 
  authors and interpreters, and the interfaces between the sociological imagination 
  and other discourses including science, anthropology, history, the