Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

There have been various calls in the literature more recently for engaging with history in the study of organisations and their management.1 They have been joined by a number of studies that have e...

Little attention has been paid to the role of strangers in the social division of labor that is otherwise a key concept in sociological theory. Partly drawing upon Simmel, this article develops a general framework for analyzing the “uses” of “the stranger” throughout history. Four major domains in which strangers have…

• MEHMET NEDİM KARAKAYALI

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that the main ontological position of modern capitalism, founded on the philosophy of utilitarianism, derived of course from the work of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, is fundamentally flawed as it ignores power inequalities and assumes that the economic fiction of p…

This article explores Max Weber’s theory of inequality and social stratification. In the first section, we explore Weber’s sociological methods applied in a stratification framework, multiple causalities, and probability and subjective factors. In the second section, Weber’s multiple conceptions of class, status, and…

• KEMAL AYDIN

Pozitivist anlayışın etkisi ve “bilim” olma kaygısı ile nötrlük ve yansızlık iddiasında olan sosyoloji; toplumsal olguların nesnel gerçekliğini inceleyen bir bilim olarak 19. Yüzyılda tarih sahnesine çıkmıştı. Bahsedilen “nesnellik” referansıyla, değerler uzun süre salt bireysel gerçekliği ifade ettiği ve öznellikle i…

• GAMZE AKSAN

Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter have contributed to the disciplines of economics and sociology. Their contributions combined history with theory, taking into account the interactions between the fields of economics and sociology. Weber viewed the structure of religious and moral thought as being the basic factor engen…

• DERYA GÜLER AYDIN
• ITIR İMER

Contents: Introduction: the Marx-Weber relationship in sociological literature. Part I Karl Marx and Imagining the Orient: The development of Marx's vision of the Orient: the cultural and social background Discussions on the Asian mode of production Marx's sources for oriental societies Marx's study of Oriental societ…

Bugün bürokrasi hala yönetim biliminin temel inceleme konularından birisi olmayı sürdürmektedir. Bunun temel nedeni kamu yönetiminin temel örgütlenme aracı ve yöntemi olmasıdır. Weber’in kuramlaştırdığı bürokrasi teorisi, birçok eleştiri almasına rağmen 21. yüzyılda dahi vazgeçilemez bir şekilde hem kamu hem de özel s…

• MEHMET AKİF ÖZER

In this study, it is argued that Pierre Bourdieu’s aprroach to religion in the framework of field theory is developed through taking into consideration understandings of religion of Marx, Durkheim and especially Weber who are the most important three names of Classical Sociology. In these discussions, Bourdieu constru…

Abstract Concepts of civil society and despotism played a fundamental role in Western interpretations of modern society, defined as a civilization, through construction of the “other.” On the one hand, modern social forms were explained through the concept of civil society and related notions of citizenship; on the ot…

Postmodern siyaset felsefesi modern siyaset felsefesinin radikal bir eleştirisi olarak kendini gösterir. Özcülük modern siyaset felsefesinin en temel özelliğidir. Postmodern siyaset felsefesi özcülüğe karşıdır. Postmodern siyaset felsefesi özcülüğün farklılıkların bastırılmasını meşrulaştırdığını iddia eder. Postmoder…

Abstract In the modern era, a wide range of human activities has been redefined as work. This essay traces a genealogy of the modern conception of work, from early Protestant ethic of work as worship of God, through secularization of this ethic and the emergence of the idea of progress, to the later model of work as p…

• DANIEL JUST