@article{437553,
      recid = {437553},
      author = {Scaff, Lawrence A.},
      title = {Max Weber in America /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton, N.J. :},
      pages = {xiv, 311 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and  the modern social sciences, visited the United States in  1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point  in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his  ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of  information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful  but not always reliable 1926 biography of her husband. Max  Weber in America carefully reconstructs this important  episode in Weber's career, and shows how the subsequent  critical reception of Weber's work was as American a story  as the trip itself. Lawrence Scaff provides new details  about Weber's visit to the United States--what he did, what  he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences  profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration,  capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race,  diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces  Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in  the United States following his death in 1920, examining  how Weber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and  disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons  and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in  America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. A  landmark work by a leading Weber scholar, Max Weber in  America will fundamentally transform our understanding of  this influential thinker and his place in the history of  sociology and the social sciences.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437553},
}