On Charisma and Institution Building (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Contributors: S. N. Eisenstadt (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1968
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780226877242
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology; 1864-1920; Authority; Gifts, Spiritual; Organizational sociology; Weber, Max,
First sentence: SOCIOLOGY (in the sense in which this highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects.