{"id":94,"date":"2020-04-07T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-04-07T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:26:31","slug":"erin-mcdonnell-on-max-weber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2020\/04\/07\/erin-mcdonnell-on-max-weber\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin McDonnell on Max Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this episode we are joined by Erin Metz McDonnell<\/a>, Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and author of the recently published Patchwork Leviathan:\u00a0<\/span>Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States<\/a>. <\/em>Erin introduces us to the \u201cbudgetary unit\u201d–a powerful, but under-utilized Weberian term–and discusses how she expands Weber\u2019s theorization of bureaucracy through her fieldwork in Ghana. Erin also offers valuable reflection on what it means to be engaging with texts that are now over a century old in both her research and her teaching.<\/p>\n

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In addition, Erin was kind enough to provide interested listeners with links to some of the readings mentioned in our conversation:<\/p>\n

From Weber himself:
\nhttp:\/\/anthropos-lab.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Weber-Science-as-a-Vocation.pdf<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economy-Society-Outline-Interpretive-Sociology\/dp\/0520035003<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Protestant-Spirit-Capitalism-Routledge-Classics\/dp\/041525406X\/<\/a><\/p>\n

On Max, Marianne, and W.E.B.
\nhttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirit-vs-Souls-Scholarship-Intellectual\/dp\/0268106010<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/41949541?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/095269519801100204<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1177\/026327691008003014<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12108-018-9368-2<\/a><\/p>\n

… in which Howard Becker reports on interviewing Marianne
\nhttps:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3483457?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents<\/a><\/p>\n

And from our guest:
\nhttps:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0003122417705874<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/673295<\/a><\/p>\n

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