Weberian

He might not wish to be described as a Weberian materialist (his last book was a beautiful account of the composition of the King James version of the Bible), but he devotes a good deal of space to the economic and religious substrata of the combat between Britain and its French and Spanish foes.

Triumph at Trafalgar 2005

He might not wish to be described as a Weberian materialist (his last book was a beautiful account of the composition of the King James version of the Bible), but he devotes a good deal of space to the economic and religious substrata of the combat between Britain and its French and Spanish foes.

Triumph at Trafalgar 2005

He might not wish to be described as a Weberian materialist (his last book was a beautiful account of the composition of the King James version of the Bible), but he devotes a good deal of space to the economic and religious substrata of the combat between Britain and its French and Spanish foes.

Triumph at Trafalgar 2005

But what we see here, as in the Arar affair, is classic institution-speak, the utterances of a "good company man," the quintessential Weberian bureaucrat who does what he is told and questions nothing.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

The first is that of a quasi-Weberian re-enchantment of a denuded reality through re-conceptualisation.

Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology 2010

So while At All Costs is still a Weberian novel with clear definite sides, it manages also to be a darkly ambiguous one and that was one of the main reasons I consider it the best novel of the series and a top five sf novel of the 00's.

Top Five SF Novel of the 00's - At All Costs by David Weber (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

However, what must be recognized is that this is not real social justice, but is only the kind of liberal-democratic social justice that allows for the continued reproduction of the working class (Marxist-Weberian defintion - see Allahar and Cote, 1998), from whose work surplus value is extracted, part of which is distributed to creative class professionals, or the new middle class information bourgeoisie (Keil, 2000).

» Kingwell vs. Florida? • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2008

Under socialist constitutions, the law tends to be seen as an aspect of goal-based public administration rather than an independent location of Weberian legal professionalism.

How lawyers think : Law is Cool 2010

So while At All Costs is still a Weberian novel with clear definite sides, it manages also to be a darkly ambiguous one and that was one of the main reasons I consider it the best novel of the series and a top five sf novel of the 00's.

Archive 2010-06-01 Cindy 2010

Britain and its allies should not try to build a modern Weberian state in Kabul that has the monopoly on the use of violence and a self-financing, service-providing administrative apparatus.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009