Max Weber’s famous text The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) is surely one of the most misunderstood of all the canonical works regularly taught, mangled, and revered in ...

The article summarizes the international development of sociology of law in connection with its situation in Brazil. A pioneer experiment in socio-juridical empirical research and graduate teaching — ...

The historical development of church-sect theory is analyzed, and two major points are made. First, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of church-sect in its original use by Max Weber and ...

Where to find the readings: = Firestone Reserve/Graduate Reading Room (paper). = Electronic reserve/Blackboard course documents. = World Wide Web (click on the link in the syllabus). Rousseau, The ...

Where to find the readings: = Firestone Reserve/Graduate Reading Room (paper). = Blackboard E-reserves. = World Wide Web (click on the link in the syllabus). Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762), tr.