In Search of the Real Max Weber: A Dynamic Interpretive Approach to Action and Agency
暫譯: 尋找真實的馬克斯·韋伯：動態詮釋行動與能動性的方式

Campbell, Colin

In Search of the Real Max Weber: A Dynamic Interpretive Approach to Action and Agency
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-08-01
  • 售價: $5,290
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 205
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 303193380X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031933806

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商品描述

This book uses the contrast between the theoretical positions of the two Max Webers - that is the Weber of the Protestant Ethic thesis and the Weber of the theory of action - as the basis for developing a theory of agency and an associated dynamic interpretive approach to action. The book critiques traditional theories of action for neglecting the physical dimension, for conflating agency with action, and contrasting the latter with behaviour. It argues that action is not just cerebral or communicative but inherently tied to effort, emotion, and imagination, with voluntarism understood in terms of attention instead of intention, and the exercise of will rather than choice. This is the basis of a "dynamic interpretivist" approach, one that integrates behavioural insights with interpretive sociology, highlighting how actors actively maintain their power of agency. The concept of "character" is also introduced as a crucial link between individual agency, ethical values, and cultural systems. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, media studies, and criminology, as well as social theorists.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書以兩位馬克斯·韋伯（Max Weber）的理論立場對比為基礎——即信仰倫理論的韋伯與行動理論的韋伯——來發展一個代理理論及其相關的動態詮釋方法。書中批評傳統的行動理論忽視了物理層面，將代理與行動混為一談，並將後者與行為對比。它主張行動不僅僅是腦力或溝通，而是與努力、情感和想像力本質上相連，並且將意志主義理解為注意力而非意圖，以及意志的行使而非選擇。這是「動態詮釋主義」方法的基礎，該方法將行為洞察與詮釋社會學相結合，強調行動者如何主動維持其代理權力。「性格」的概念也被引入，作為個體代理、倫理價值和文化系統之間的重要聯繫。本書將吸引社會學、人類學、媒體研究和犯罪學的研究者和學生，以及社會理論家。

作者簡介

Colin Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is the author of half a dozen books and over one hundred articles dealing with issues in the sociology of religion, consumerism, cultural change, and sociological theory. He is probably best-known as the author of The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (1987, 2018), a `modern classic' which has been translated into half a dozen languages. His other major publications include Toward A Sociology of Irreligion (1971, 2013) The Myth of Social Action (1996), The Easternization of the West, (2007), Has Sociology Progressed? Reflections of An Accidental Academic (2019) and Consumption and Consumer Society: The Craft Consumer and Other Essays (2021).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

科林·坎貝爾是英國約克大學的名譽社會學教授。他是六本書和一百多篇文章的作者，這些作品涉及宗教社會學、消費主義、文化變遷和社會學理論等議題。他可能最為人所知的是他的著作《浪漫倫理與現代消費主義的精神》（1987年，2018年），這本書被譽為「現代經典」，已翻譯成六種語言。他的其他主要出版物包括《無宗教社會學的探索》（1971年，2013年）、《社會行動的神話》（1996年）、《西方的東方化》（2007年）、《社會學有進步嗎？一位意外學者的反思》（2019年）以及《消費與消費社會：工藝消費者及其他論文》（2021年）。

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