Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.

Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, this remarkable volume holds its own as one of the most significant books of the twentieth century.

A study guide and compendium of social structures and normative orders in world-historical depth, containing chapters on social action, religion, law, bureaucracy, charisma, the city, and the political community with its dimensions of class, status and power.

The argument of this work is that, rather than a post-modern world, the end of the 20th century should be described as a period of high modernity , which radicalizes prior trends. An account of the nature of modernity, it analyzes the intersections between trust mechanisms and risk profiles.

Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who was held to be a determinist with little concern for anything outside his narrow theory of historical materialism. Dr Avineri claims that such a