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The Antisocial Sociology: Max Weber and the Forgotten Individual

by Boris Kriger
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798196048319
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 364
  • Original Price: GBP 20.66
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 486 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Individual Philosophers

Max Weber gave the modern world its sharpest mirror. He named the iron cage of bureaucracy, traced the ghostly afterlife of Calvinist anxiety inside the modern office, and showed how rational systems can run perfectly while the people inside them quietly come apart. His vocabulary still saturates the way educated people talk about authority, capitalism, and disenchantment. Yet for all his brilliance, Weber kept his attention on the structures, the institutions, the historical patterns. The person trapped inside the cage, the one with a heartbeat and a mortgage and a private fear of Monday morning, often slipped out of view.
The Antisocial Sociology takes Weber seriously enough to argue with him. Written for educated general readers, this book guides readers through every major idea Weber gave us, from social action and the ideal type to the three faces of legitimate authority, while pressing a question Weber rarely asked: how does any of this feel for an actual living person trying to survive inside it? With wit, narrative texture, and an unusually human angle of approach, the book moves between Weber's grand theories and a series of close-up readings, the worker, the scientist, the criminal, the patient, the poet, in order to expose the gap that all sociology eventually has to face.
It is a portrait, an introduction, a critique, and a quiet manifesto. It is also, in the end, an argument that the social sciences will never be honest until they remember that society is not a machine to be analyzed but a place where particular individuals are trying, with great difficulty, to be alive.
Keywords
Max Weber, sociology, bureaucracy, rationalization, individuality, modernity, authority

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