The Marx Weber Debate

Download or read book The Marx-Weber Debate written by Norbert Wiley and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent are the ideas of Marx and Weber incompatible and contradictory? Is there no interplay between the theoretical systems of these acknowledged masters of social theory? The arguments which have raged for almost a century between Marxists and Weberians have stressed the opposition of their ideas at the expense of the convergence. This volume changes the emphasis: the contributors, drawn from both Marxist and Weberian schools of thought, explore areas of conceptual overlap. They consider important similarities in notions of contradiction, revolution, the role of culture, the class-state relationship, and the self.