Economy and society. Essays of understanding sociology

The book is the first volume of the four -volume publication of Max Weber"s epoch -making work “Economy and Society”. This is the first full translation into Russian. In volume 1, a characteristic of the basic concepts of understanding sociology as a whole, the principles of economic sociology are formulated, a brief outline of the sociology of domination (in particular, charismatic and bureaucratic types of domination) is given and the ways of developing a new concept of social structure and social stratification for its time are outlined. In fact, this volume formulated concepts that will serve the reader with a guiding thread to understand the most important problems of the science of society, considered in the subsequent volumes of this classical composition, which are now being prepared for printing.
The publication is intended for sociologists, political scientists, historians, economists, generally for specialists of a wide range of social and humanities, as well as for a circle of readers interested in the problems of social and cultural development