A Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 13439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2547-1637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1918 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Edgar Zilsel ‘The Social Roots of Romantic Ideology’ (1933). A translation and commentary
Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) was an associate of the Vienna Circle and an Austro-Marxist. He is remembered for the so-called ‘Zilsel Thesis’, a historical reconstruction of the social and economic preconditions for the emergence of modern experimental science written in exile in the USA. His earlier work in Vienna on the cult of genius has recently been revisited by a number of scholars. The aim of this translation is to make one of his writings on t…
Social Roots of Romantic Ideology
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Influence of Urban Planning on Social Dynamics: Spatial Forms and People’s Behavior in the Public Spaces of Baghdad
It is well known that there is a complex interaction between urban spatial design and human behavior. Environment has a significant impact on social dynamics and the activities of people. It is more pronounced in cities. In the Al-Bataween area of Baghdad, the interaction of people with their surroundings provides an opportunity to examine the physical space layout that influences routines and social interactions. In this context, this paper exam…
The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific
This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society relations. The essays in this volume consider: diverse …
Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: A comparative perspective from India and Myanmar
Much of the revived interest in new – populist and/or authoritarian – styles of leadership has been a response to developments, initially in Europe, from the late1980s on, one aspect of which has been a renewed interest in charisma and in plebiscitary leadership. How applicable are approaches to leadership developed primarily in European political science and sociology to contemporary South and Southeast Asia? Building both on Weber's classical a…
The Kelsen-Bauer debate on Marxist state theory and the equilibrium of class forces
This serves as an introduction to a debate between Hans Kelsen and Otto Bauer concerning the nature and relative autonomy of the state, and the theories that informed the political practices of the Austro-Marxists and of the SDAP (Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party) immediately after the fall of the monarchy and during the early years of the First Republic. Both pieces (translated below) were published in Der Kampf ( The Campaign), the SDA…
Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory
This article discusses one early manifestation of a recurring theme in social theory and sociology: the relationship between general ('universal' or 'grand') theory and empirical research. For the early critical theorists, empiricism and positivism were associated with technocratic domination. However, there was one place where the opposite view prevailed: science and empiricism were viewed as forces of social and political progress and speculati…
Prodigal offspring: Organizational sociology and organization studies
Academic disciplines are defined not primarily by their object but by their (theoretical and methodological) approach to that object, and by their claim to a monopoly over it. Even where that monopoly claim has been highly successful, it remains contestable. For example, economics, perhaps in this respect the most successful social science, finds its object - the economy - contested by political economists and economic sociologists. Whereas econo…
Protectionism
Protectionism is the attempt by national governments to shield domestic markets and industries by imposing restrictions on imported goods. It is commonly viewed as a reaction to – or against – economic globalization, and is associated with the doctrine of economic nationalism. Although international free trade has long been a basic principle of the international economic order, some protectionist measures remain in place. The 2008 global financia…
(Plebiscitary) leader democracy: The return of an illusion
There is a revival of notions of leader democracy (LD) and plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD) both at the level of politics (e.g. the rhetoric of strong leadership) and in academic debate. This paper focuses largely on the latter, with occasional reference to real-world political developments. The paper (i) sketches changes in the nature of contemporary governance; (ii) argues that Weber's and Schumpeter's account of (plebiscitary) leader democr…
Remaking Market Society: A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times
The impact of trial stage, developer involvement and international transferability on universal social and emotional learning programme outcomes: A meta-analysis
Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North
Journal Article Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North Get access Steve Longenecker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. xiv, 246 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1276–1277, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav139 Published: 01 March 2015
Capitalism as culture and statecraft: Weber- Simmel-Hirschman
This paper offers a critical exposition and a comparison of the arguments of three key thinkers - Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Albert Hirschman - who rejected purely economic accounts of the development and nature of capitalism - whether Marxist or neo-classical - and sought to develop an account of capitalism as culture; as a form of life, conduct, an ethic, a system of ideas and ideals. Such approaches are characterized by (i) their emphasis on …
Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: Cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether hospitals with a good organisation of care (such as improved nurse staffing and work environments) can affect patient care and nurse workforce stability in European countries. DESIGN: Cross sectional surveys of patients and nurses. SETTING: Nurses were surveyed in general acute care hospitals (488 in 12 European countries; 617 in the United States); patients were surveyed in 210 European hospitals and 430 US hospit…
Development Theory and the Constitution of Market Society: A Polanyian View
This paper argues that development studies could benefit from a closer engagement with the arguments of Karl Polanyi. Firstly, a Polanyian perspective gives greater weight to non-economic and non-material factors in making, maintaining and modifying markets. Secondly, it focuses research on the problematic, state- sponsored and contested process of bringing the market actor into being. Finally, a Polanyian approach might better link a, broadly sp…
A Desperate Comedy: Hope and alienation in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
This article is both a personal response to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and an examination of the concept within literature of making the strange familiar and making the familiar strange. It discusses the educative force and potential of Beckett’s strangers in a strange world by examining my own personal experiences with the play. At the same time the limitations of Beckett’s theatre are explored through the contrast with the work of Berth…
Nationalstaat
Flüchtige Moderne
Transformation de l'État ou changement de régime ? De quelques confusions en théorie et sociologie de l'État
Cet article a pour objet la question de la définition de l'État afin de rendre compte de ses transformations contemporaines. Fermement inscrits dans la tradition wébérienne, les auteurs développent une critique des travaux, qu'ils soient néomarxistes ou néowébériens, mesurant le changement de l'État contemporain par rapport à l'État tel qu'il a été défini pendant les Trente Glorieuses. La critique porte à la fois sur la périodisation et sur la co…
A British Bureaucratic Revolution: Autonomy Without Control, or “Freer Markets, More Rules
This paper addresses a puzzle: how to account for changes in the routine behavior of groups, organizations and individuals in Britain? Following a detailed analysis of state-market interdependence and the role of the state in creating the market, an analysis drawn from the thinking of Weber and Polanyi, we suggest adapting Weber’s notion of bureaucratic revolution: in what we call the British bureaucratic revolution, the state has played an essen…
Raymond Aron's political sociology of regime and party
This paper provides a critical exposition of Raymond Aron's analysis of the distinct characteristics of constitutional-pluralist and totalitarian regimes. These regime types are distinguished by the nature of the party system - respectively, multi-party and monopolistic - and their underlying principles. Aron's approach to the nature of political sociology is, it is argued, deeply influenced by the German - particularly Weberian - understanding o…
Reform and governance in higher education: Reform and Governance in Higher Education
The last quarter of a century has seen waves of reform in higher education (HE) around the globe. No less striking are the similarities in terms of language, aims and instruments across these reforms. A relatively independent - institutionally 'pillarized' - and simple organization with a short list of tasks (teaching and research) and occasionally a good wine cellar was to be turned into a multi-tasking engine of economic growth within the 'know…
Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation
Participation is a popular buzzword in contemporary urban studies. For some, it implies a deepening of democratic deliberation; for others, it represents grassroots resistance to powerful elites and neoliberalization. Rather than seeing participation as either consensus-building or conflicts of interest, as either a top-down or bottom-up process, the evidence suggests that it can be all of these. By adopting a more dynamic, pragmatic, and empiric…
Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today
Chris Hann and Keith Hart (eds), Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 312 pp., £60.00 (hardback), IBSN 978-0-521-51965-6 Cultural economy
Une révolution bureaucratique britannique: Autonomy Without Control, or “Freer Markets, More Rules”
L'article a pour point de départ un puzzle : comment rendre compte des transformations des comportements routiniers de groupes, d'organisations et d'individus en Grande-Bretagne ? À partir d'une analyse précise des interdépendances entre État et marché et du rôle de l'État dans la création du marché tirée de Weber et de Polanyi, nous proposons de reprendre et d'adapter la notion de révolution bureaucratique avancée par Weber. Nous défendons la th…
Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation
Participation is a popular buzzword in contemporary urban studies. For some, it implies a deepening of democratic deliberation; for others, it represents grassroots resistance to powerful elites and neoliberalization. Rather than seeing participation as either consensus-building or conflicts of interest, as either a top-down or bottom-up process, the evidence suggests that it can be all of these. By adopting a more dynamic, pragmatic, and empiric…
Novel Food, New Markets and Trust Regimes: Responses to the erosion of consumers' confidence in Austria, Italy and the UK
The public debate around food confidence stimulated by food scares, the opening up of wider food markets and the introduction of GM foods provides an opportunity to analyse citizens' identification with their community sociologically, as it is reproduced through mundane practices. In order to do so, this article examines the GM food debate in Italy and the implications for food and agricultural policy of Austria's entry into the EU. Britain, with…
The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments
Bureaucratic revolutions and free market utopias
The paper builds on analyses by Max Weber and Karl Polanyi to argue that 'free markets' are politically contituted social organizations. Neo-Marxist analysis is criticized for over-emphasizing the importance of economic and ideological conditions for the remodelling of society along market lines. Recent shifts, for example in Britain, towards market organization are interpreted as a 'bureaucratic revolution' (Weber). The paper calls for an analys…
Modernity's Machine Metaphor
Discussions of «modernity» have been influenced by mechanical metaphors of the type to be found in Weber's writings on religion and politics. Through a detailed examination of Maurice Halbwachs' analysis of collective memory and social order, the appropriateness of these mechanical metaphors is called into question. It is argued that the Durkheimian school generally has a more nuanced account of the nature of «modern» society; one which pays clos…
Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: A comparative perspective from India and Myanmar
Much of the revived interest in new – populist and/or authoritarian – styles of leadership has been a response to developments, initially in Europe, from the late1980s on, one aspect of which has been a renewed interest in charisma and in plebiscitary leadership. How applicable are approaches to leadership developed primarily in European political science and sociology to contemporary South and Southeast Asia? Building both on Weber's classical a…
(Plebiscitary) leader democracy: The return of an illusion
There is a revival of notions of leader democracy (LD) and plebiscitary leader democracy (PLD) both at the level of politics (e.g. the rhetoric of strong leadership) and in academic debate. This paper focuses largely on the latter, with occasional reference to real-world political developments. The paper (i) sketches changes in the nature of contemporary governance; (ii) argues that Weber's and Schumpeter's account of (plebiscitary) leader democr…
Elderly people from ethnic minorities in Liverpool: Mental illness, unmet need and barriers to service use
The objective of the Health and Ethnicity Project was to identify unmet need and barriers to the use of psychogeriatric and welfare services by ethnic minority older people living in Liverpool's inner-city. The results presented here are the findings of Phase II of the project in which 71 ethnic minority older people aged 65 years and over were interviewed. These respondents had been diagnosed as suffering from dementia or depression earlier in P…
The Basic Law versus the Basic Norm? The Case of the Bavarian Crucifix Order
What is to be done with radical academic practice
Since the mid 1970s, radical analysis of formal educational institutions has become dominated by a form of academic Marxism or neo-Marxism epitomised in the published work of Apple, Willis, Whitty and Giroux, among others. Such work usually includes 'Monday morning chapters' which seek to answer the question: What is to be done? The authors subject this form of theorising to a fundamental critique, seeing it as the product of the forms and proces…
Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day
This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the development of Chinese theater by considering all of its major aspects—history and social context, performance, costume, makeup, actors, playwrights, and theaters—and by discussing all the major forms of Chinese theater, including the Beijing opera, which arose in the eighteenth century, and the spoke…
Raymond Aron's political sociology of regime and party
This paper provides a critical exposition of Raymond Aron's analysis of the distinct characteristics of constitutional-pluralist and totalitarian regimes. These regime types are distinguished by the nature of the party system - respectively, multi-party and monopolistic - and their underlying principles. Aron's approach to the nature of political sociology is, it is argued, deeply influenced by the German - particularly Weberian - understanding o…
Action, movement, and intervention: Reflections on the sociology of Alain Touraine
Cet article examine les déclarations qu'Alain Touraine fait pour sa sociologie de Taction. On argumente qu'alors que Touraine presente une critique puissante des assomptions des fonctionnels en sociologie, sa propre analyse de la société‘post‐industrielle’ ou ‘programmée’à des implications historiques et théologiques qui le raménent à une analyse des fonctionnels plus conventionnelle. Nous continuons ensuite à examiner les implications de cette t…
A British Bureaucratic Revolution: Autonomy Without Control, or “Freer Markets, More Rules
This paper addresses a puzzle: how to account for changes in the routine behavior of groups, organizations and individuals in Britain? Following a detailed analysis of state-market interdependence and the role of the state in creating the market, an analysis drawn from the thinking of Weber and Polanyi, we suggest adapting Weber’s notion of bureaucratic revolution: in what we call the British bureaucratic revolution, the state has played an essen…
Value freedom and intellectual autonomy
Imputing Beliefs: A Controversy in the Sociology of Knowledge
The problem of imputation - how to ascribe ideas and beliefs to groups, or to individuals on the basis of their group membership - has occasionally occupied the attention of those working in the sociology of knowledge. This article offers a critical discussion of this debate. It is argued that the various proposed solutions - idealist, empiricist, and structuralist - do not adequately tackle the problem since each assumes a deterministic model of…
The Kelsen-Bauer debate on Marxist state theory and the equilibrium of class forces
This serves as an introduction to a debate between Hans Kelsen and Otto Bauer concerning the nature and relative autonomy of the state, and the theories that informed the political practices of the Austro-Marxists and of the SDAP (Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party) immediately after the fall of the monarchy and during the early years of the First Republic. Both pieces (translated below) were published in Der Kampf ( The Campaign), the SDA…
Reactionaries of the lectern: Universalism, anti-empiricism and corporatism in Austrian (and German) social theory
This article discusses one early manifestation of a recurring theme in social theory and sociology: the relationship between general ('universal' or 'grand') theory and empirical research. For the early critical theorists, empiricism and positivism were associated with technocratic domination. However, there was one place where the opposite view prevailed: science and empiricism were viewed as forces of social and political progress and speculati…
Prodigal offspring: Organizational sociology and organization studies
Academic disciplines are defined not primarily by their object but by their (theoretical and methodological) approach to that object, and by their claim to a monopoly over it. Even where that monopoly claim has been highly successful, it remains contestable. For example, economics, perhaps in this respect the most successful social science, finds its object - the economy - contested by political economists and economic sociologists. Whereas econo…
Capitalism as culture and statecraft: Weber- Simmel-Hirschman
This paper offers a critical exposition and a comparison of the arguments of three key thinkers - Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Albert Hirschman - who rejected purely economic accounts of the development and nature of capitalism - whether Marxist or neo-classical - and sought to develop an account of capitalism as culture; as a form of life, conduct, an ethic, a system of ideas and ideals. Such approaches are characterized by (i) their emphasis on …
Development Theory and the Constitution of Market Society: A Polanyian View
This paper argues that development studies could benefit from a closer engagement with the arguments of Karl Polanyi. Firstly, a Polanyian perspective gives greater weight to non-economic and non-material factors in making, maintaining and modifying markets. Secondly, it focuses research on the problematic, state- sponsored and contested process of bringing the market actor into being. Finally, a Polanyian approach might better link a, broadly sp…
A Desperate Comedy: Hope and alienation in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
This article is both a personal response to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and an examination of the concept within literature of making the strange familiar and making the familiar strange. It discusses the educative force and potential of Beckett’s strangers in a strange world by examining my own personal experiences with the play. At the same time the limitations of Beckett’s theatre are explored through the contrast with the work of Berth…
Jack Barbalet, Weber, Passion and Profits. ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ in Context
Despite its appealing cover -a cartoon of a rather bemused looking Weber in place of one of those stern and grainy photographs -I approached this volume with a degree of suspicion.This is a book about a book, using a single translation at a time when alternatives are at last available.And what a translation: Talcott Parsons's much criticized, indeed maligned, translation from 1930.Furthermore, Barbalet explicitly addresses Weber the sociologist w…
The Contemporary British Society Reader
The Prehistoric and Early Use of Pitchstone and Obsidian: With Report on Petrology; and a Note of Egyptian and Aegean Discoveries
The volcanic glass of Scotland and Ireland is called pitchstone, and the often more solid and homogeneous natural glass found in foreign places is known as obsidian. The pitchstone of Ireland and of Scotland, except that of the Island of Arran, is apparently too much cracked into small pieces to be of use. Pitchstone is rare in Scotland, and the Island of Arran possesses most of the outcrops. Pitchstone when splintered presents razor-like edges n…
General Practice on a New Housing Estate
An analysis has been carried out of the records kept for the year 1953 by six doctors practising on a new housing estate near London. The population of the estate is described in terms of age, sex, and social class. 76 per cent. of the registered patients consulted a doctor at some time during the year, the consultation rate per person being 4.1 based on the average registered population; females had more consultations than males; 80 per cent. of…
Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day
This volume is the first concise introduction to the splendid variety of the Chinese theatrical tradition. It presents a rounded perspective on the development of Chinese theater by considering all of its major aspects—history and social context, performance, costume, makeup, actors, playwrights, and theaters—and by discussing all the major forms of Chinese theater, including the Beijing opera, which arose in the eighteenth century, and the spoke…
Transmission through the female line of a mechanism constraining human fetal growth
Cross-breeding experiments between large and small strains of mammals have shown the powerful influence of the maternal organism on the control of fetal growth. The prepotency of a maternal regulator has also been demonstrated in humans. Our earlier studies indicated that this regulator acts by means of constraint; there is no equivalent accelerating mechanism. Data on 1092 siblings and 5207 paternal and maternal relatives of 986 probands show di…
What is to be done with radical academic practice
Since the mid 1970s, radical analysis of formal educational institutions has become dominated by a form of academic Marxism or neo-Marxism epitomised in the published work of Apple, Willis, Whitty and Giroux, among others. Such work usually includes 'Monday morning chapters' which seek to answer the question: What is to be done? The authors subject this form of theorising to a fundamental critique, seeing it as the product of the forms and proces…
The Austrian general election of 1986
Politics and Method in Mannheim's 'Ideology and Utopia
Previous interpretations of Mannheim, as relativist, as co-founder of the sociology of knowledge, or as hermeneutic thinker, fail to identify one of his basic intentions, namely the defence of Enlightenment notions such as 'reason' and 'rationality' against what he identifies as the dislocating effects of modernity. Contrary to the interpretation of Mannheim as a relativist, we argue, on the basis of a detailed discussion of Ideology and Utopia, …
Constrained and unconstrained fetal growth: Associations with some biological and pathological factors
Data are presented on the birthweights of 1092 siblings and 5207 maternal and paternal relatives of 986 probands. Previous analyses had demonstrated the potency of a maternal regulator constraining fetal growth. Different patterns of birthweights were found in families ascertained, respectively, through very large and very small babies (Ounsted, Scott and Ounsted 1986). When the data were reanalyzed in respect of other biological and pathological…
A reply to Geoff Whitty
Imputing Beliefs: A Controversy in the Sociology of Knowledge
The problem of imputation - how to ascribe ideas and beliefs to groups, or to individuals on the basis of their group membership - has occasionally occupied the attention of those working in the sociology of knowledge. This article offers a critical discussion of this debate. It is argued that the various proposed solutions - idealist, empiricist, and structuralist - do not adequately tackle the problem since each assumes a deterministic model of…
An Investigation Into the Effects of the Des Bursary Scheme on Both the ‘Quality’ of Intakes to Pre‐service Teacher Education Courses and the Extent of Student Drop‐out From Those Courses
The DES bursary aims to attract people onto pre‐service education courses in order to train as physics, mathematics and CDT teachers. Perceptions of the effectiveness of this initiative, and its influence on the comparative quality of entrants to these courses are investigated with the tutors leading bursary courses. Responses in the three subject areas are presented. The drop‐out rate of students from the courses is shown to be in the order of 7
Action, movement, and intervention: Reflections on the sociology of Alain Touraine
Cet article examine les déclarations qu'Alain Touraine fait pour sa sociologie de Taction. On argumente qu'alors que Touraine presente une critique puissante des assomptions des fonctionnels en sociologie, sa propre analyse de la société‘post‐industrielle’ ou ‘programmée’à des implications historiques et théologiques qui le raménent à une analyse des fonctionnels plus conventionnelle. Nous continuons ensuite à examiner les implications de cette t…
Origen's Use of Xenocrates of Ephesus
ORIGEN'S USE OF XENOCRATES OF EPHESUS BY ALAN SCOTT Xenocrates of Ephesus (first century A.D.) was the author of one of the Hellenistic era's standard lapidaries, the Lithognomon.' He was cer- tainly used by Origen in one passage, and probably was used by him in two others. Moreover, Xenocrates is quoted in a passage of Jerome which earlier scholars suspected was taken from a work of Origen's that is no longer extant, and further examination stre…
Pseudo-Aristotle's Historia Animalium 9 in Origen
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Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea
The Uncertain Science: Criticism of Sociological Formalism
Value freedom and intellectual autonomy
Culture or Politics? Recent Literature on Social Movements, Class and Politics
The Basic Law versus the Basic Norm? The Case of the Bavarian Crucifix Order
Bureaucratic revolutions and free market utopias
The paper builds on analyses by Max Weber and Karl Polanyi to argue that 'free markets' are politically contituted social organizations. Neo-Marxist analysis is criticized for over-emphasizing the importance of economic and ideological conditions for the remodelling of society along market lines. Recent shifts, for example in Britain, towards market organization are interpreted as a 'bureaucratic revolution' (Weber). The paper calls for an analys…
Modernity's Machine Metaphor
Discussions of «modernity» have been influenced by mechanical metaphors of the type to be found in Weber's writings on religion and politics. Through a detailed examination of Maurice Halbwachs' analysis of collective memory and social order, the appropriateness of these mechanical metaphors is called into question. It is argued that the Durkheimian school generally has a more nuanced account of the nature of «modern» society; one which pays clos…
The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments
The Date of the Physiologus
L'article est consacre a la recherche de la date du Physiologus, souvent situe a la fin du second siecle. L'A. revise cette date, estimant qu'il a probablement ete ecrit apres Origene et a ete influence par lui, a Alexandrie ou dans des cercles monastiques. Le fait que le Physiologus est cite dans une version latine a l'epoque d'Ambroise suggere qu'il n'a pas ete compose beaucoup plus tard que le milieu du troisieme siecle
Irrational Choice: On Freedom, Coercion and the Labour Contract
While recognizing the new 'freedoms' of the labour contract, Marx and Marxist historians and theorists have emphasized its coercive origins and implications. In contrast, Weber and Simmel are struck by the extent to which rural labourers appear to opt for the labour contract even where this is not in their material interest. The article examines this debate and its continued significance for understanding contemporary changes in the nature of wor…
Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
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