GERTH, H. H., and C. WRIGHT MILLS (Eds. and Trans.). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Pp. 490. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. $5.00
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Book DepartmentGERTH, H. H., and C. WRIGHT MILLS (Eds. and Trans.). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Pp. 490. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. $5.00 SAGE Publications, Inc.1947DOI: 10.1177/000271624725300177 Talcott Parsons Harvard University The appearance of this volume of selections from the work of Max Weber in English translation is a most welcome addition to the sparse representation of translations from German of the writings of this eminent social scientist. The material is carefully, accurately, and, on the whole, readably translated, and the writings selected are representative of a wide range of the authors' exceedingly versatile and comprehensive studies. Weber's famous addresses on politics and science, respectively, as vocations, appropriately begin the volume. Perhaps more than any other of his essays, they express the two sides of Weber's fundamental personal interests, and, at the same time, a notable interpretation of the situation of his time with respect to each. Part two, entitled "Power," consists of selections from the large work Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, which deals in an extraordinarily comprehensive, if fragmentary, manner with the relations between the economy and. the social structure. The exception is certain essays written independently, but they all together constitute the outline of