Introduction

Chapters 10 through 13 all offer applications of Weber’s mode of analysis. Its capacity to provide causal explanations of specific cases is demonstrated. All four chapters illustrate the manner in which he interlocks past and present tightly, as well as the importance he attributes to the deep cultural (mainly religious) patterns of action that form the contexts for recently crystallized regularities of action. Uniquely, both chapters in Part V offer highly multi-causal and contextualconjunctural analyses.