'... A significant and scholarly contribution to the recent renaissance of interest in Weberian sociology ... which is set within the context of macro-civilisational analysis ... Kalberg's book can be recommended as a major contribution to contemporary interpretations of Weber's contribution to historical sociology. It fills an obvious gap in the literature on Weberian sociology.' The Sociological Review
'... This is in many ways a pathbreaking work.' T. Mulhall, London School of Economics
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.