ABSTRACT
In a preliminary manner, this chapter reconstructs his highly comparative sociology of emotions. Drawing widely from the E&S, PE, and EEWR volumes and their presuppositions – an orientation to multi-causality and the ideal type level of analysis – Weber’s context-based procedures stress the ways in which the emotions in the West became circumscribed. Over centuries, their expansive unfolding was restricted by both “internal” and “external” restrictions.
