num_pages: 145
description: Force, Fate, and Freedom serves as an introduction to historical sociology, as well as a critical analysis of the belief in economic and political progress through social knowledge. Reinhard Bendix offers a development of the historicist approach to social change first championed by Max Weber, and presents an overview of the foundations of political authority in Japan, Russia, Germany, France, and England.
language: English
title: Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology
titlecomplete: Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology
publisher: University of California Press