Table of Contents

Introduction: Wolf Heydebrand Editor's Acknowledgments   SOCIAL ACTION AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS    1. The Concept of Social Action 2. The Types of Social Action 3. The Concept of Social Relationship 4. The Concept of Legitimate Order 5. The Bases of Legitimacy of an Order 6. The Concept of Conflict 7. Types of Solidary Social Relationships 8. Open and Closed Relationships 9. Power, Authority, and Imperative Control 10. Political and Religious Corporate Groups Translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons   DOMINATION AND STRATIFICATION 11. Legitimacy and the Types of Authority 12. Charismatic Authority 13. The Routinization of Charisma 14. Collegiality and the Division of Powers Translated by Martin Black   15. Bureaucratic Authority Translated by Martin Black, with Lance W. Garmer   16. The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Classes, Status Groups, Political Parties Translated by Martin Black   17. The Chinese Literati Translated by Hans H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills   RATIONALIZATION IN ECONOMY, RELIGION, AND LAW 18. The Origins of Modern Capitalism 19. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit Translated by Frank H. Knight   20. The Dualism of In-Group nad Out-Group Morality Translated by Hans H. Gerth and Don Martindale   21. Judaism, Christianity, and the Socioeconomic Order 22. The Attitude of the Other World Religions (Islam, Buddhism, Christianity) to the Social and Economic Order Translated by Ephraim Fischoff   23. Rationality and Formalism in Law 24. Formal and Substantive Rationalization of Law 25. The Formal Qualities of Modern Law Translated by Edward A. Shils and Max Rheinstein   SOCIOLOGY AND SCIENCE 26. Definition of Sociology 27. The Methodological Foundations of Sociology Translated by A.M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons   28. "Objectivity" in Social Science 29. The Tension between Science and Policy-Making 30. Ideal-Type Constructs Translated by Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch   31. Science as a Vocation Translated by Hans A. Gerth and C. Wright Mills   Notes