Introduction

Parts IV and V utilize Weber’s sociology. Although less multi-causal than the analyses in Part V, Chapters 10 and 11 in this section provide Weberian analyses in a clear sense: both stress the significance of patterns of action oriented to culture and religion and both emphasize the importance of the long-term past in shaping the contours of the present. As in Weber’s sociology generally, in these chapters past action patterns constitute background and “deep cultural” regularities that legitimate patterns of action in the present.