The City (Weber book)

Book by Max Weber

The City

Author| Max Weber
Language| German

Publication date

| 1921
Publication place| Germany
ISBN| 0-02-934210-4 (Free Press 1986 paperback edition)

The City is a book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. It was published posthumously in 1921.[1][2] In 1924 it was incorporated into a larger book, Economy and Society. An English translation was made in 1958 and several editions have been released since then.

It is likely that Weber compiled that research in 1911–1913, although it contains materials he found before that time.

The analysis of city consists of many different subjects—including study of religion (especially Protestantism), history of development of democracy in Western Europe.

Weber argues that the development of cities in European culture (Occidental cities) as an autonomous associations with its own municipal officials was influenced by such factors as:

* the religion of Christianity
* the privileged legal position of the citizens (based upon citizen's obligation for military service)
* the decline of religious sanctions of kinship solidarity that facilitated creation of unified urban community

That made the city's population easily influenced by later ideas of the Reformers.

In Weber's own words:

> The origin of a rational and inner-worldly ethic is associated in the Occident with the appearance of thinkers and prophets [...] who developed in a social context which was alien to the Asiatic cultures. This context consisted of the political problems engendered by the bourgeois status-group of the city, without which neither Judaism, nor Christianity, nor the development of Hellenistic thinking are conceivable.

## References

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1. ^ Domingues, José Maurício (July 2000). "The City: Rationalization and freedom in Max Weber". Philosophy & Social Criticism. 26 (4): 107–126. doi:10.1177/019145370002600406. ISSN 0191-4537. S2CID 145437980.
2. ^ Perulli, Paolo (2022), Perrone, Camilla (ed.), "Max Weber, die Stadt (1922), English Edition, Max Weber, the City, Edited and Translated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, the Free Press, 1958", Critical Planning and Design, The Urban Book Series, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 181–190, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93107-0_16, ISBN 978-3-030-93106-3, retrieved 2023-09-19

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Max Weber

* Bibliography
* List of speeches
* Liberalism
* German politics

Books|

* Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter (1889)
* Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law (1891)
* Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (1892)
* The Stock Exchange (1896)
* The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
* The Economic Ethics of the World Religions
* The Religion of China (1915)
* The Religion of India (1916)
* Ancient Judaism (1921)
* Sociology of Religion (1920)
* The City (1921)
* Economy and Society (1922)

Essays|

* "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904)
* "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
* "The Rejection and the Meaning of the World" (1916)

Lectures|

* "Science as a Vocation" (1917)
* "Politics as a Vocation" (1919)
* General Economic History (1923)

Concepts|

* Disenchantment
* Ethic of ultimate ends
* Ideal type
* Inner-worldly asceticism
* Iron cage
* Life chances
* Methodological individualism
* Monopoly on violence
* Protestant work ethic
* Rationalisation
* Social action
* Affectional
* Traditional
* Instrumental
* Value-rational
* Three-component theory of stratification
* Tripartite classification of authority
* Charismatic
* Rational-legal
* Traditional
* Value-freedom
* Verstehen

People|

* Max Weber Sr. (father)
* Alfred Weber (brother)
* Marianne Weber (wife)

Related|

* Verein für Socialpolitik
* Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik
* German Sociological Association
* German Democratic Party
* Max Weber Foundation

## See also

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* Central place theory

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