Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these classical works by date of publication, earliest first.
- Weber, Economy and Society
- Durkheim, Suicide
- Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Tönnies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
- Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society
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- The German conceptual pair comes first and one of these appeared after its author had died.
- 1887, 1893, 1897, 1904 to 1905, 1912 and 1922.
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- Tönnies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft
- Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society
- Durkheim, Suicide
- Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Weber, Economy and Society
Why
The last entry is the odd one: Weber died in 1920 and Economy and Society was assembled from his papers by his widow Marianne Weber, which is why its structure has been disputed ever since. A canon partly edited by an executor is a reminder that even the classics arrive shaped by other hands.
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