Toby E Huff
Biographic Data
| ID | 233535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby E Huff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby E |
| FAMILY NAME | Huff |
| SIGNATURE | HUFF T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5892-8395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Max Weber’s Comparative and Historical Sociology of Law. Extending the Legal Paradigm: A Prolegomenon
The recently established Complete Collection of Max Weber’s Writings [the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe] resulted in a new orientation to Weber’s Sociology of Law, now known as the Developmental Conditions of the Law. This retitling of Weber’s work-in-progress stresses the developmental intent of Weber’s study which holds the project together. Another reading of that work suggests four different levels of legal change embedded in Weber’s text and with …
Max Weber's Comparative and Historical Sociology of Law
Max Weber’s Rechtssoziologie remains nonpareil, yielding unique insights, keen juridical understanding, anchored in comparative and historical materials. This unfinished work focuses on the “developmental conditions” of law with special attention to ancient Western legal traditions originating with Greek and Roman law passed on to canon law, with special attention to Chinese, Islamic, Indian, and Judaic systems but with attention to many lesser d…
Max Weber & Islam
Max Weber, Islam, and Rationalization: A Comparative View
From his early studies, beginning with the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber began to realize that religious orientations provide strong motivations to reshape, or rationalize the mundane world. He then found that rationalist inclinations also affected music and the arts, and thus seemed to penetrate all spheres of artistic, social, and political life. At the same time Weber’s inquiries deep into the history of law back to the …
Max Weber and Methodology of Social Science
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
The “Eastern” Origins of Western Civilization
Christopher I. Beckwith. Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
Journal Article Christopher I. Beckwith. Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World. Get access Christopher I. Beckwith. Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xvi, 211. Cloth $29.95, e-book $29.95. Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Why Some Nations Succeed
Is American Science Being Challenged
Law and Science
What the West Doesn’t Owe Islam
Globalization has brought more and more peoples and societies around the world into contact with international standards of law, commerce, and communication. That process has also enabled a number of formerly underdeveloped societies to experience extraordinary patterns of economic growth, especially in the last third of the twentieth century. For some scholars the rise of Asian economies during this period has suggested an impending Pacific Cent…
Reformation in Islam
Some Historical Roots of the Ethos of Science
This comparative and historical examination of the ethos of science finds significant examples of the Mertonian ethos in university discussions from the 12th through the 14th century. The institutionalization of naturalistic inquiry based on Aristotelian modes of argument and demonstration was unique to Western Europe and did not occur in China or the Islamic Middle East. Nevertheless, Merton's writings on the ethos show no indication of his rely…
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis (review)
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis
Introduction - Sa[um]id Amir Arjomand and Edward A Tiryakian PART ONE: THE INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND Civilization in an Historical and Global Perspective - Bruce Mazlish Civilizational Forms - Marcel Mauss (edited and translated by Diane Barthel-Bouchier) PART TWO: THEORETICAL ESSAYS Civilizational Analysis - Edward A Tiryakian The Civilizational Dimensions of Modernity - Shmuel N Eisenstadt Notes on the Concept of an Axial Turning in Human History…
The big shift
Freedom of expression in the Muslim world
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West
This 2003 study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, Tony E. Huff explores the cultural - religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional - contexts within which science was practised in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law a…
Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor and Its First Crisis of Confidence
In this paper, Malaysia's attempt to join the 'information society' and 'knowledge economy' by embarking on the ambitious Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is mapped out and analysed. The discussion is framed in the context of globalization, modernity and the situation in other Muslim societies. Notwithstanding the present national skepticism regarding the MSC, the project has been reasonably well designed and launched. But it is, in the final anal…
Max Weber & Islam
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures . Helaine Selin
Science and the Public Sphere III in East Asia: Historical Perspectives and Economic Prospects1
The fourth scientific revolution
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West
Rethinking islam and fundamentalism
For Weber. Essays on the Sociology of Fate
Journal Article For Weber. Essays on the Sociology of Fate, by Bryan S. Turner. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, x + 408 pp. $30.00 Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 1981, Pages 375–376, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711549 Published: 01 December 1981
Max Weber's Sociology of Intellectuals
The social role of intellectuals was a pervasive motif in Weber's thought, particularly in his works on religion and politics. Comprehensively examining and extending Weber's work on the subject, Sadri provides a new perspective on the intelligentsia and its role in society. He also provides a synthetic typology of intellectuals which spans both Eastern and Western traditions. Culling Weber's scattered observations on the subject, Sadri lays a th…
Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value
Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
Weber and Rickert: Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences
Theoretical Innovation in Science: The Case of William F. Ogburn
With the use of a novel approach fashioned out of the work of Hanson, Popper, Kuhn, and others, an intensive case study of theoretical innovation in sociology-issuing from the work of William F. Ogburn-was undertaken. The results indicate that the innovative aspects of Ogburn's work stem from his introduction of new conceptual categories to explain facts of sociocultural process, which though known to him for several decades, had not been adequat…
The big shift
Freedom of expression in the Muslim world
"Is a Theory of Sociocultural Process Possible without Reference to "Civilizational Complexes
Journal Article Is a Theory of Sociocultural Process Possible Without Reference to “Civilizational Complexes”? Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 85–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709740 Published: 01 July 1974
Reformation in Islam
Some Historical Roots of the Ethos of Science
This comparative and historical examination of the ethos of science finds significant examples of the Mertonian ethos in university discussions from the 12th through the 14th century. The institutionalization of naturalistic inquiry based on Aristotelian modes of argument and demonstration was unique to Western Europe and did not occur in China or the Islamic Middle East. Nevertheless, Merton's writings on the ethos show no indication of his rely…
Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor and Its First Crisis of Confidence
In this paper, Malaysia's attempt to join the 'information society' and 'knowledge economy' by embarking on the ambitious Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is mapped out and analysed. The discussion is framed in the context of globalization, modernity and the situation in other Muslim societies. Notwithstanding the present national skepticism regarding the MSC, the project has been reasonably well designed and launched. But it is, in the final anal…
Science and civilizations east and west
Discovery and Explanation in Sociology: Durkheim on Suicide
Articulating images: The sociology of illusion
Theoretical Innovation in Science: The Case of William F. Ogburn
With the use of a novel approach fashioned out of the work of Hanson, Popper, Kuhn, and others, an intensive case study of theoretical innovation in sociology-issuing from the work of William F. Ogburn-was undertaken. The results indicate that the innovative aspects of Ogburn's work stem from his introduction of new conceptual categories to explain facts of sociocultural process, which though known to him for several decades, had not been adequat…
"Is a Theory of Sociocultural Process Possible without Reference to "Civilizational Complexes
Journal Article Is a Theory of Sociocultural Process Possible Without Reference to “Civilizational Complexes”? Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 85–94, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709740 Published: 01 July 1974
Discovery and Explanation in Sociology: Durkheim on Suicide
Discovery and Explanation in Sociology: Durkheim on Suicide
The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
An Impossible Epistemology
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part I
The Past and The Present
Journal Article The Past and The Present, by Lawrence Stone. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, xii + 274 pp. $15.95 Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 3, Fall 1981, Pages 293–295, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711043 Published: 01 October 1981
For Weber. Essays on the Sociology of Fate
Journal Article For Weber. Essays on the Sociology of Fate, by Bryan S. Turner. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, x + 408 pp. $30.00 Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 4, Winter 1981, Pages 375–376, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711549 Published: 01 December 1981
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part III
On the Methodology of the Social Sciences: A Review Essay Part II
The Iconoclastic Imagination: Benjamin Nelson, a Breaker and Destroyer of Images
On the Roads to Modernity, Conscience, Science and Civilizations
Journal Article On the Roads to Modernity, Conscience, Science and Civilizations, selected writings by Benjamin Nelson, edited with a preface by Toby E. Huff. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Little-field, 1981, xxiii + 316 pp. $27.50 Get access Edward A. Tiryakian Edward A. Tiryakian Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 1982, Pages 83–84, https://doi.or…
On the Roads to Modernity -- Conscience, Science and Civilizations. Selected Writings by Benjamin Nelson
Karl Popper. Anthony O'Hear
On the Roads to Modernity: Conscience, Science, and Civilizations
The Origin of Formalism in Social Science. Jeffrey T. Bergner
Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
Information, science and universality
Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value
Weberian Sociological Theory.Randall Collins
The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences
Reason, Freedom and Religion: Closing the Gap between the Humanistic and Scientific Study of Religion
Journal Article Reason, Freedom and Religion: Closing the Gap between the Humanistic and Scientific Study of Religion, by Lorne Dawson. New York: Peter Lang, 1988, vii + 247 pp. $46.95 Get access Toby E. Huff Toby E. Huff Southeastern Massachusetts University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 4, Winter 1989, Pages 432–433, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710781 Published: 01 …
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber: Collected Essays
Sociology (49 works) · Philosophy (36 works) · Epistemology (29 works) · Political science (28 works) · Social science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (13 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (11 works) · Islam (10 works) · History (9 works)