Max Weber's Comparative Historical Sociology

In this accessible and engaging work, Kalberg shows how Weber's work casts a direct light upon issues of pressing importance for comparative-historical research today addressing in a forceful way the whole range of problems and dilemmas confronted by the comparative-historical enterprise.

Introduction. Part I: Foundational Strategies and Procedures. 1. The Agency-Structure Linkage: The Pluralism of Motives and Weber's Structuralism. 2. Weber's Multicausality. Part II: The Causal Sociology: Procedures and Strategies. 3. The Level of Analysis: The Ideal Type. 4. Ideal Types as Hypothesis-Forming Models: Economy and Society. 5. The Mode of Causal Analysis Reconstructed: Causal Methodology and Theoretical Framework. Part III: Conclusion. References.