Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Politics & Social Sciences

Turner, Stephen P.

Factor, Regis A.

Social Sciences

Routledge

Relates the categories of Weber's social thinking to the intellectual context of legal thinking and theory in which he was educated. As such, this is the only account of the key sources of Weber's sociology of law.

Philosophy

Max Weber (Key Sociologists)

History

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised and adapted in new contexts. The story of the dispute is itself fascinating, for it cuts across the major political and intellectual currents of the twentieth century, from positivism, pragmatism and value-free social science, through the philosophy of Jaspers and Heidegger, to Critical Theory and the revival of Natural Right and Natural Law. As Weber's ideas were imported to Britain and America, they found new formulations and new adherents and critics and became absorbed into different traditions and new issues. This book was first published in 1984.

Sociology

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

The Politics of Expertise (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and legitimating it are solved by these structures. The radical novelty of this approach is that it places the traditional discussion of expertise in democracy into a much larger framework of knowledge and power relations, and in addition begins to raise the questions of epistemology that a serious account of these problems requires.

Understanding the Tacit (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Quentin Skinner’s theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins’s idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons. The new account of tacit knowledge focuses on the fact that in making the tacit explicit, a person is not, as many past accounts have supposed, reading off the content of some sort of shared and fixed tacit scheme of presuppositions, but rather responding to the needs of the Other for understanding.

This book is all about developing a winning strategy for the Chinese market. It's designed to coach International Managers on how to develop an international team that has an in-depth understanding of their Chinese counterpart's mind-set and decision making process. It then discusses how this information can be applied to the negotiation process as well as long term on the ground operations. In short, this book developed a systematic approach on how to develop a strategic advantage during Chinese business negotiations through the use of a cultural translator. It was established through prior research that cultural conflicts are a leading cause of international operation failures, especially in joint ventures. Additional research indicated that international business negotiators who understood their counterparts’ mind-set (i.e. how they are culturally programmed to act and react to situations, which includes in-depth knowledge of their cultural complexes and negotiation strategies and tactics) were successful in their negotiation process. It was concluded that companies wishing to develop a winning strategy for China should consult a cultural translator prior to the start of the negotiation process to assist in their negotiating team’s preparation, thus achieving a strategic advantage during the negotiation process. This framework would then assist international managers in managing their China operations throughout the life of the venture. This book has gone through extensive executive peer review and found to be one of the best resources an international manager could have guiding them the complexities of the Chinese business processes. Reviews included companies of all sizes and industries, including Cessna Aircraft, GE, Lockheed Martin, Hillwood, Curtis Mathis, and others.

How to Win in China: Chinese Business and Negotiation Strategies Revealed

Business & Money

International

L & T Publishing

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value: A Study in Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics (International Library of Sociology)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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Books by Turner, Stephen P.

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Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

Max Weber (Key Sociologists)

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

The Politics of Expertise (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Understanding the Tacit (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

How to Win in China: Chinese Business and Negotiation Strategies Revealed

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value: A Study in Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics (International Library of Sociology)