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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.

Sociology --- Sociologists --- History. --- Weber, Max, --- Travel --- America. --- American Progressivism. --- American South. --- American exceptionalism. --- American frontier. --- American modernity. --- Americanization. --- Chicago. --- Congress of Arts and Science. --- Europe. --- Europeanization. --- Ferdinand Krnberger. --- Frank Knight. --- German immigrants. --- Helene Weber. --- Hull House. --- Indian Territory. --- Jane Addams. --- Marianne Weber. --- Max Weber. --- New York City. --- New York. --- Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. --- North Carolina. --- North Tonawanda. --- Oklahoma. --- Pennsylvania. --- Protestant ethic. --- Protestantism. --- Quakers. --- Romanticism. --- Samuel Gompers. --- Talcott Parsons. --- Tennessee. --- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. --- Tuskegee. --- United States. --- University of Heidelberg. --- W.E.B Du Bois. --- William James. --- action. --- asceticism. --- authority. --- capitalism. --- caste. --- character. --- citizenship. --- class. --- colonial children. --- cultural criticism. --- cultural pluralism. --- culture. --- economic action. --- education. --- ethnicity. --- experience. --- family. --- gender. --- historical inquiry. --- immigration. --- intellectual life. --- land allotment. --- migrs. --- modernity. --- nature. --- political economy. --- political reform. --- publication. --- race relations. --- race. --- rationality. --- rationalization. --- religion. --- religious ethics. --- religious faith. --- religious sects. --- romanticism. --- scholars. --- scholarship. --- science. --- settlements. --- slavery. --- social action. --- social capital. --- social science disciplines. --- social sciences. --- sociation. --- sociology. --- status. --- stockyards. --- traditionalism. --- translation. --- travel. --- tribal membership. --- undergraduate courses. --- universities. --- university curricula. --- urban space. --- vacation retreat. --- working class. --- world culture.

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"Robert Bellah (1927-2013) was a hugely-influential twentieth-century American social scientist. During an intellectual career that spanned six decades, his work became central in many fields: the sociology of Japanese religion, the relationships between sociology and the humanities, the relationship between American religion and politics, the cultures of modern individualism, and evolution and society. His seminal 1967 essay "Civil Religion in America" created a huge debate across disciplines which continues to this day; his co-authored book Habits of the Heart (1985) was a bestseller (it sold close to 500,000 copies) and became the object of sustained public discussion about the temptations and dangers of radical individualism. His last magnum opus, an interpretation of 15,000 years of human history many years in the making entitled Religion in Human Evolution and published by HUP when Bellah was 84, was a capstone to an extraordinary scholarly and intellectual career. It has been reprinted numerous times and continues to sell. In this book Matteo Bortolini recounts not just the arc of this extraordinary scholarly career, but also an eventful and tempestuous life, including a youthful student affiliation with the Communist Party USA and a resulting McCarthy era exile to Canada, crushing personal tragedies (with the death of two of his four daughters in the 1970s), and, at the age of 50, a coming out as a gay man, which did not however sever his close ties with his wife of many decades, Melanie Hyman Bellah. The author has worked on this book for thirteen years, and during this time has conducted research at university archives around the world, including archives at Harvard, Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, and McGill. Bortolini also interviewed some three dozen of Bellah's colleagues, former students, friends and relatives, including his two daughters, who have given this project their full support (without attempting to influence it in any way). They have also given the author full access to Bellah's personal papers. (Bellah's wife of many years predeceased him.) It is also noteworthy that when the obits appeared after Bellah's death, Bortolini was quoted in them as Bellah's biographer. So he is already widely recognized as the guy from whom we can expect a definitive biography of this man"--

Sociologists --- Bellah, Robert N. --- United States. --- Academic freedom. --- Admiration. --- After Virtue. --- Allan Bloom. --- Ambivalence. --- Appeasement. --- Average Joe. --- Axial Age. --- Barrington Moore, Jr. --- Charismatic authority. --- Christian right. --- Civil religion. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Communitarianism. --- Consciousness. --- Conservative Judaism. --- Courtesy. --- Culture hero. --- Discipline. --- Enthusiasm. --- Erudition. --- Formality. --- Gananath Obeyesekere. --- Glorification. --- Good Omens. --- Good faith. --- Grandiosity. --- Gratitude. --- Great books. --- Great power. --- H. Richard Niebuhr. --- Hedonism. --- Herbert J. Gans. --- High modernism. --- Hippie. --- His Favorite. --- Impartiality. --- Impossibility. --- In Plain Sight. --- Individualism. --- J. Anthony Lukas. --- Jack Miles. --- Jerome Bruner. --- Loyalty. --- Manliness (book). --- Max Weber. --- Meaningful life. --- Modernity. --- Moral Majority. --- Morale. --- Morality. --- Morton White. --- Mr. --- On Religion. --- On the Right Track. --- Open marriage. --- Open-mindedness. --- Optimism. --- Original position. --- Originality. --- Patriotism. --- Peacemaking. --- Peacetime. --- Political Man. --- Positive feedback. --- Post-war consensus. --- Pragmatism. --- Pro bono. --- Rational analysis. --- Rationality. --- Religion. --- Romanticism. --- Rugged individualism. --- Sam Keen. --- Secular humanism. --- Secular movement. --- Secularism. --- Self-confidence. --- Self-fulfillment. --- Self-righteousness. --- Seriousness. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Sola fide. --- Solidarity. --- Sophism. --- Spirituality. --- Subjectivism. --- Talcott Parsons. --- The Best and the Brightest. --- The Love-Ins. --- The Other Hand. --- Triumphalism. --- Truth claim. --- Unconditional love. --- Utilitarianism. --- Utopia. --- Wilfred Cantwell Smith. --- Young Man Luther. --- Émile Durkheim.