TY - BOOK AU - Scaff,Lawrence A. TI - Max Weber in America SN - 9780691147796 AV - HM479.W42 S33 2017 U1 - 301.092 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Sociologists KW - Biography KW - Germany KW - Sociology KW - History KW - United States KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh KW - America KW - American Progressivism KW - American South KW - American exceptionalism KW - American frontier KW - American modernity KW - Americanization KW - Chicago KW - Congress of Arts and Science KW - Europe KW - Europeanization KW - Ferdinand Krnberger KW - Frank Knight KW - German immigrants KW - Helene Weber KW - Hull House KW - Indian Territory KW - Jane Addams KW - Marianne Weber KW - Max Weber KW - New York City KW - New York KW - Nineteenth Street Baptist Church KW - North Carolina KW - North Tonawanda KW - Oklahoma KW - Pennsylvania KW - Protestant ethic KW - Protestantism KW - Quakers KW - Romanticism KW - Samuel Gompers KW - Talcott Parsons KW - Tennessee KW - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism KW - Tuskegee KW - University of Heidelberg KW - W.E.B Du Bois KW - William James KW - action KW - asceticism KW - authority KW - capitalism KW - caste KW - character KW - citizenship KW - class KW - colonial children KW - cultural criticism KW - cultural pluralism KW - culture KW - economic action KW - education KW - ethnicity KW - experience KW - family KW - gender KW - historical inquiry KW - immigration KW - intellectual life KW - land allotment KW - migrs KW - modernity KW - nature KW - political economy KW - political reform KW - publication KW - race relations KW - race KW - rationality KW - rationalization KW - religion KW - religious ethics KW - religious faith KW - religious sects KW - romanticism KW - scholars KW - scholarship KW - science KW - settlements KW - slavery KW - social action KW - social capital KW - social science disciplines KW - social sciences KW - sociation KW - sociology KW - status KW - stockyards KW - traditionalism KW - translation KW - travel KW - tribal membership KW - undergraduate courses KW - universities KW - university curricula KW - urban space KW - vacation retreat KW - working class KW - world culture N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part 1. The American Journey --; One. Thoughts about America --; Two. The Land of Immigrants --; Three. Capitalism --; Four. Science and World Culture --; Five. Remnants of Romanticism --; Six. The Color Line --; Seven. Different Ways of Life --; Nine. American Modernity --; Ten. Interpretation of the Experience --; Part 2. The Work in America --; Eleven. The Discovery of the Author --; Twelve. The Creation of the Sacred Text --; Thirteen. The Invention of the Theory --; Appendix 1: Max and Marianne Weber's Itinerary for the American Journey in 1904 --; Appendix 2. Max Weber, Selected Correspondence with American Colleagues, 1904-5 --; Archives and Collections Consulted --; Bibliographic Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not always reliable 1926 biography of her husband.Max Weber in America carefully reconstructs this important episode in Weber's career, and shows how the subsequent critical reception of Weber's work was as American a story as the trip itself. Lawrence Scaff provides new details about Weber's visit to the United States--what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race, diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how Weber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. A landmark work by a leading Weber scholar, Max Weber in America will fundamentally transform our understanding of this influential thinker and his place in the history of sociology and the social sciences UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836710?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400836710 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400836710.jpg ER -