ABSTRACT
This chapter defines and discusses the five themes of Weber’s sociology of civilizations: how subjective meaning is formed and how it varies across civilizations, the uniqueness of Western “rationalism” and modern Western rationalism, the causal impact of values and the manner in which values may become for him rationalized in various ways, the world views of civilizations, and the variation across civilizations in respect to the degree to which conflict extends across a civilization’s major domains.
