On Charisma and Institution Building: Selected Writings (Heritage of Sociology Series)

On Charisma and Institution Building: Selected Writings (Heritage of Sociology Series) by Weber, Max. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226877242.

This selection from Max Webers writings presents his variegated work from one central focus, the relationship between charisma on the one hand, and the process of institution building in the major fields of the social order such as politics, law, economy, and culture and religion on the other. That the concept of charisma is crucially important for understanding the processes of institution building is implicit in Webers own writings, and the explication of this relationship is perhaps the most important challenge which Webers work poses for modern sociology. Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building is a volume in "The Heritage of Sociology," a series edited by Morris Janowitz. Other volumes deal with the writings of George Herbert Mead, William F. Ogburn, Louis Wirth, W. I. Thomas, Robert E. Park, and the Scottish Moralists—Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and others.