Sandro Segre
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 213679 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sandro Segre |
| PRENOMES | Sandro |
| SOBRENOME | Segre |
| ASSINATURA | SEGRE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1582-4451 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ringer's Interpretation of Weber
The late American historian Fritz K. Ringer (1934-2006) has been acclaimed for his investigations concerning the German social sciences at the turn of the nineteenth century, and Max Weber's social theory in particular. Ringer is especially known for his essay on the decline in Germany in the period between 1890 and 1933 of a particular collectivity he has called 'mandarins' (Ringer 1969). We shall first briefly provide a brief summary of this es…
Max Weber’s Verstehende Soziologie and Florian Znaniecki’s Cultural Sociology
This article compares Weber’s notion of Verstehende Soziologie with Znaniecki’s concepts of humanistic coefficient and cultural sociology. While both authors follow an interpretive perspective and agree that the specific object of sociological inquiry is social action, they diverge in their conceptions of social action and in their definition of sociology and its methods and aims. For, in contrast to Znaniecki, Weber holds that sociology aims not…
The Notion of Formal Rationality in the Writings of Max Weber and Other Foremost Sociologists
This contribution has investigated the sociological notion of formal rationality as used by Max Weber and other eminent sociologists such as Adorno, Habermas, Horkheimer, Luhmann, Mannheim, Marcuse, and Vierkandt. All these sociologists have drawn a distinction between formal (or objective) and non-formal modes of rational action and considered the former mode as a distinguishing trait of modernity. Following Weber, formal rationality has been vi…
Stephen Kalberg, Max Weber’s Sociology of Civilizations
Di Stephen Kalberg il lettore italiano forse conosce Leggere Max Weber (Bologna, il Mulino, 2008; edizione originale: Max Weber lesen, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2006), l’unico libro di quest’autore tradotto nella nostra lingua. Kalberg è tuttavia autore di altri testi dedicati all’opera di Weber, del quale è assai autorevole studioso, e ha inoltre pubblicato una nuova traduzione di The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Los Angele…
Reconsidering Max Weber's journey to the United States
This article sets out to investigate Weber's major sources of interest in his American journey, namely, rampant capitalism as most evident in some large cities, the presence of Calvinism and of a bourgeois ethos in some Northern areas of the United States, and the persisting relevance of a precapitalist status order in the South. As Weber argued, in these distinct settings different status groups and anthropological types were all connected, each…
Alfred Vierkandt’s notion of the social group
German sociologist Alfred Vierkandt is hardly remembered today. This may seem surprising. Several prominent sociologists from the German-speaking countries contributed to the Handwörterbuch der Soziologie (1931), which Vierkandt edited and published. However, Vierkandt did not interact with any of them significantly, and this publication brought no recognition of the importance of his sociological oeuvre in Germany, the United States, or elsewher…
Religion and Black Racial Identity in Du Bois’s Sociology
This article focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois’s ambivalent reception of Protestantism, and of religion in general. It argues that he rejected institutional Protestantism as characterized by cold formalism, but thought that the teaching and practices of this religion as taking place the Negro Churches were still relevant to most American Blacks. As pointed out by some secondary literature, Du Bois maintained that religious institutions gave comfort, soci…
Schutz and Becker on making music together
This article compares the sociological writings of Schutz and Becker on making music together. Schutz laid stress on the We-relationship resulting from face-to-face performance of music, in which every listener participates with the other listeners, the performers, and the composers. Becker emphasized the existence of taken-for-granted conventions on which cooperative relations between performers are based, in conjunction with other members of th…
Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives
Howard S. Becker’s Symbolic Interactionism
Weber's Critical Evaluation of Tarde
This article presents and discusses Weber's critical evaluation of Tarde's notion of imitation. While Weber does not object to the potential sociological relevance of this notion, he finds it ill-defined and difficult to investigate. He does not concur, moreover, with Tarde's fundamental thesis that all social action rests on imitation. A textual examination of Tarde's writings indicate that — aside from the notion of imitation, on which Tarde ha…
Bauman and Contemporary Sociology
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker
A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets
Moral economy, as a set of rules which regulate market transactions, has been the object of much research and debate since the 1980s; it has also been the focus of classical sociological authors such as Weber, Simmel and Toennies. Weber in particular examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets, and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations - one oligopolis…
Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellectual movements within the discipline, as well as the work of individual scholars. The author provides not only a rigorous exposition of each theory, but also an examination of the scholarly reception of the approach in question, considering both critical responses and defences in order to reach a balanc…
Kurt Wolff’s Interpretation of Mannheim’s Late Political Writings
This article deals with Kurt Wolff’s interpretation of Karl Mannheim, with reference to his writings on social planning. Wolff’s interpretation is presented and discussed in the context provided by other interpreters of Mannheim. They have, generally speaking, given scant attention to the late works by Mannheim, and rather focused on Ideology and Utopia, Mannheim’s most celebrated work. Interpreters who have considered these writings on planning …
Social Constructionism as a Sociological Approach
On Bauman's Interpretation of Weber
This article provides a re-assessment of Bauman's interpretation of Weber. It refers to this end to Du Gay's critique, which came out in the late 1980s and called into question the accuracy of Bauman's interpretation of Weber as contained in Modernity and the Holocaust. Du Gay objects of Bauman that Weber's ideal type of modern bureaucratic organizations is not incompatible with ethical considerations, and Bauman has therefore misrepresented Webe…
A Note on Max Weber’s Reception on the Part of Symbolic Interactionism, and its Theoretical Consequences
On Wolfgang Schluchter's Interpretation of Weber
The article gives critical consideration to Schluchter's interpretation of Weber, and in particular to his account of the development of Western rationalism. Schluchter's interpretation, it is here maintained, has neglected to pay attention to those aspects of formal and material irrationality of modern capitalism, on which Weber has laid stress. Functionalist investigations, moreover, are only preliminary to a verstehende Soziologie. They are in…
Jeffrey Alexander on Weber and Democracy
[MWS 10.2 (2010) 235-249] ISSN 1470-8078 Jeffrey Alexander on Weber and Democracy: A Critical Note Sandro Segre Preliminary Observations Jeffrey Alexander's four-volume work Theoretical Logic in Sociology, published in the early 1980s, pursued the goals of providing sociol ogy with new epistemological principles, reconstructing the thought of Marx, Dürkheim, Weber and Parsons, and evaluating it according to these principles. Alexander's work prod…
A Weberian analysis of business groups and financial markets
Durkheim on Rationality
The article explores Durkheim's different notions of rationality, aims to formulate a Durkheimian theory of social integration, which should be both unitary and compatible with a particular version of Rational Choice Theory (RCT), and to this end refers to the whole Durkheimian corpus. To pursue these theoretical goals, it recalls Durkheim's fundamental distinction between an individual and social state of consciousness, which may be related to t…
A Weberian Account of Social Norms and Trust in Financial Markets
This study focuses on how Weber's writings, especially those concerning the organization and functioning of stock exchanges, imply a theory of social norms and trust in financial markets. Consideration is given to the extent to which accounts of social norms and trust, which have been proposed by rational choice theory and Parsons, are compatible with Weber's concept of social action. According to Weber, in a market community trust is based not o…
Understanding Lived Experience
A Weberian Theory of Time
This article formulates a Weberian general theory of time. The theory is Weberian, in the sense that it is drawn from Weber's epistemological and sociological work. After a short presentation of Weber's epistemological writings, concerning how social scientists may investigate present and past events, and a brief digression on Husserl's possible influence on Weber, it focuses on Weber's sociological analysis of time in interactional and social co…
A Durkheimian Network Theory
This article sets out, first of all, to reconstruct a Durkheimian network theory that is derived from Durkheim's own writings, and the sociological literature that considers their relationship to network theory. Secondly, it seeks to show how this Durkheimian network theory is compatible with, and may contribute to, contemporary network theory and fields of inquiry to which network theory has been applied, such as social movements, professions, s…
Religion and Black Racial Identity in Du Bois’s Sociology
This article focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois’s ambivalent reception of Protestantism, and of religion in general. It argues that he rejected institutional Protestantism as characterized by cold formalism, but thought that the teaching and practices of this religion as taking place the Negro Churches were still relevant to most American Blacks. As pointed out by some secondary literature, Du Bois maintained that religious institutions gave comfort, soci…
Howard S. Becker’s Symbolic Interactionism
Social Constructionism as a Sociological Approach
Understanding Lived Experience
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker
Kurt Wolff’s Interpretation of Mannheim’s Late Political Writings
This article deals with Kurt Wolff’s interpretation of Karl Mannheim, with reference to his writings on social planning. Wolff’s interpretation is presented and discussed in the context provided by other interpreters of Mannheim. They have, generally speaking, given scant attention to the late works by Mannheim, and rather focused on Ideology and Utopia, Mannheim’s most celebrated work. Interpreters who have considered these writings on planning …
Stratification theory and research in Weimar Germany
This article focuses on the sociological field of stratification theory and research in Weimar Germany, and pursues the following objectives: (1) to offer for consideration some of the most significant theoretical and empirical essays bearing on stratification that were produced in the German-speaking world during the Weimar period; (2) to classify their authors according to cultural, ideological and epistemological orientations; (3) to account b…
Business Communities and Their Milieux
Family Stability, Social Classes and Values in Traditional and Industrial Societies
This paper focuses on the impact which industrialization, the existing fiamily system and the class structure have upon family stability. The comparison of different ftamily systems in traditional and industrial societies yields these conclusions: first, jfimily stability in traditional societies can be achieved by less privileged groups that accept the predominant value system, are instrumentally related to the more privileged groups, and posses…
Acerca de la relación entre la sociología italiana y el fascismo, 1920-1945
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Business Communities and Their Milieux
A Weberian Theory of Time
This article formulates a Weberian general theory of time. The theory is Weberian, in the sense that it is drawn from Weber's epistemological and sociological work. After a short presentation of Weber's epistemological writings, concerning how social scientists may investigate present and past events, and a brief digression on Husserl's possible influence on Weber, it focuses on Weber's sociological analysis of time in interactional and social co…
Stratification theory and research in Weimar Germany
This article focuses on the sociological field of stratification theory and research in Weimar Germany, and pursues the following objectives: (1) to offer for consideration some of the most significant theoretical and empirical essays bearing on stratification that were produced in the German-speaking world during the Weimar period; (2) to classify their authors according to cultural, ideological and epistemological orientations; (3) to account b…
Understanding Lived Experience
A Durkheimian Network Theory
This article sets out, first of all, to reconstruct a Durkheimian network theory that is derived from Durkheim's own writings, and the sociological literature that considers their relationship to network theory. Secondly, it seeks to show how this Durkheimian network theory is compatible with, and may contribute to, contemporary network theory and fields of inquiry to which network theory has been applied, such as social movements, professions, s…
Ethnomethodology in Italy
This article provides an overview on works that have come out in Italy in the field of ethnomethodology. General introductory works are considered first, with reference to their similarities and differences. Subsequently, the interpretations and discussions concerning the ethnomethodological perspective are briefly presented, and the limited amount of empirical investigations on ethnomethodological questions is mentioned. Garfinkel's ethnomethodo…
A Weberian Account of Social Norms and Trust in Financial Markets
This study focuses on how Weber's writings, especially those concerning the organization and functioning of stock exchanges, imply a theory of social norms and trust in financial markets. Consideration is given to the extent to which accounts of social norms and trust, which have been proposed by rational choice theory and Parsons, are compatible with Weber's concept of social action. According to Weber, in a market community trust is based not o…
A Weberian analysis of business groups and financial markets
Durkheim on Rationality
The article explores Durkheim's different notions of rationality, aims to formulate a Durkheimian theory of social integration, which should be both unitary and compatible with a particular version of Rational Choice Theory (RCT), and to this end refers to the whole Durkheimian corpus. To pursue these theoretical goals, it recalls Durkheim's fundamental distinction between an individual and social state of consciousness, which may be related to t…
Jeffrey Alexander on Weber and Democracy
[MWS 10.2 (2010) 235-249] ISSN 1470-8078 Jeffrey Alexander on Weber and Democracy: A Critical Note Sandro Segre Preliminary Observations Jeffrey Alexander's four-volume work Theoretical Logic in Sociology, published in the early 1980s, pursued the goals of providing sociol ogy with new epistemological principles, reconstructing the thought of Marx, Dürkheim, Weber and Parsons, and evaluating it according to these principles. Alexander's work prod…
On Wolfgang Schluchter's Interpretation of Weber
The article gives critical consideration to Schluchter's interpretation of Weber, and in particular to his account of the development of Western rationalism. Schluchter's interpretation, it is here maintained, has neglected to pay attention to those aspects of formal and material irrationality of modern capitalism, on which Weber has laid stress. Functionalist investigations, moreover, are only preliminary to a verstehende Soziologie. They are in…
A Note on Max Weber’s Reception on the Part of Symbolic Interactionism, and its Theoretical Consequences
Contemporary Sociological Thinkers and Theories
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical perspectives in contemporary sociology, covering schools of thought or intellectual movements within the discipline, as well as the work of individual scholars. The author provides not only a rigorous exposition of each theory, but also an examination of the scholarly reception of the approach in question, considering both critical responses and defences in order to reach a balanc…
Kurt Wolff’s Interpretation of Mannheim’s Late Political Writings
This article deals with Kurt Wolff’s interpretation of Karl Mannheim, with reference to his writings on social planning. Wolff’s interpretation is presented and discussed in the context provided by other interpreters of Mannheim. They have, generally speaking, given scant attention to the late works by Mannheim, and rather focused on Ideology and Utopia, Mannheim’s most celebrated work. Interpreters who have considered these writings on planning …
Social Constructionism as a Sociological Approach
On Bauman's Interpretation of Weber
This article provides a re-assessment of Bauman's interpretation of Weber. It refers to this end to Du Gay's critique, which came out in the late 1980s and called into question the accuracy of Bauman's interpretation of Weber as contained in Modernity and the Holocaust. Du Gay objects of Bauman that Weber's ideal type of modern bureaucratic organizations is not incompatible with ethical considerations, and Bauman has therefore misrepresented Webe…
A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets
Moral economy, as a set of rules which regulate market transactions, has been the object of much research and debate since the 1980s; it has also been the focus of classical sociological authors such as Weber, Simmel and Toennies. Weber in particular examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets, and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations - one oligopolis…
The Sociology of Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker’s Symbolic Interactionism
Weber's Critical Evaluation of Tarde
This article presents and discusses Weber's critical evaluation of Tarde's notion of imitation. While Weber does not object to the potential sociological relevance of this notion, he finds it ill-defined and difficult to investigate. He does not concur, moreover, with Tarde's fundamental thesis that all social action rests on imitation. A textual examination of Tarde's writings indicate that — aside from the notion of imitation, on which Tarde ha…
Bauman and Contemporary Sociology
Schutz and Becker on making music together
This article compares the sociological writings of Schutz and Becker on making music together. Schutz laid stress on the We-relationship resulting from face-to-face performance of music, in which every listener participates with the other listeners, the performers, and the composers. Becker emphasized the existence of taken-for-granted conventions on which cooperative relations between performers are based, in conjunction with other members of th…
Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives
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