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General presuppositions and/or theoretical affiliations and influences: history as increasing rationalisation and secularisation; Neo-Kantianism, hermeneutics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx.
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Model/paradigm(s): capitalism based on exchange and trade (2000 years); modern form of capitalism based on rationalisation (400 years).
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Concepts: class (as defined by position in the market), income and occupation, status, lifestyles and honour, parties, power, Protestant work ethic, bureaucracy, charisma and charismatic leadership.
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Emipiral environment(s): Europe, USA, Asia.
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Hess, A. (2001). Max Weber: Political Economy as Sociology. In: Concepts of Social Stratification. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230629219_3
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