TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruhns,Hinnerk
TI  - City and Countryside
PY  - 2003///.
							
N1  - 46
N2  - Town and country: what kind of relation to Max Weber’s sociological project? The sources of Weberian sociology are generally located in the methodological and theoretical debates of the late 19th and early 20th century rather than in the concrete problems of German society. Examining the motives of Weber’s commitment to the creation of the German Sociology Society shows that his objectives were not in priority the autonomy or the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline, but the creation of an instrument and infrastructure for carrying out great investigations “with no practical purpose”. This sociological project is directly linked, to the investigations, rural at first, carried out by Weber in the framework of the Verein für Sozialpolitik, to the political exploitation that he made of them himself, and to his failure in imposing to the Verein a program and a methodology for investigation with no immediate practical end. Rural sociology has forgotten the rural sources of Weber’s sociology. Yet, in the urban sociology of the 20th century, one can encounter the affirmation of a Weberian descent. Examination of the urban theme throughout Weber’s works shows that contemporary urban society is absent, and for what reasons, whereas the theme of the city (Ancient, Middle ages, Orient) plays a primordial role in Weber’s investigation on the conditions of emergence of modern enterprise capitalism
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-societes-contemporaines-2003-1-page-13?lang=en
ER  -