closure
Identified in the writings of Max Weber, and more recently resurrected by the British sociologist Frank Parkin, the concept emerged as an alternative to Marxist theories of inequality and of how the ...
patrimonialism
A form of political domination described by Max Weber (Economy and Society, 1920), in which authority rests on the personal and bureaucratic power exercised by a royal household, where that power is ...
political crime
Historically, the term refers to conspiracy, and the actual deed of challenges to political rulers or sacred authority. Political criminals were likely to suffer much more gruesome punishment than ...
sociology of law
Law—rules of action or statutes established by authorities such as states—was a central object of theoretical and substantive concern to each of the founding figures of sociology.Although Karl Marx ...
