Title:
MAX WEBER'S THEORY OF CIVILISATIONS TODAY: The Rule of Law instead of Capitalism!

Authors:
Jan-Erik Lane

Volume:1 Issue: 5

Abstract:
Max Weber contributed to all the social sciences: economic history, politics, sociology, law and religion. Of special relevance to globalisation studies is his theory about the basic difference between the WEST and the EAST - the so-called Weber's thesis about modern capitalism, based upon his profound inquiries into the world religions, like the religions of India and China, and his studies of the economic history of Europe and the Middle East. His The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904) is the most discussed booklet in the social sciences, endorsed, rejected and falsified, as well as confirmed. I will show that the focus of his comparative studies, viz modern capitalism, is flawed as well as that his major idea in politics, the type of modern legal-rational authority, is more suited for his EAST-WEST civilisation approach, but it needs reformulation.

Citation:

[Lane, Jan-Erik. "MAX WEBER'S THEORY OF CIVILISATIONS TODAY: The Rule of Law Instead of Capitalism!" IJAH July 1.5 (2017): 434-41.]