Guenther Roth

Book ReviewsMax Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences.By Fritz Ringer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. ix+188.

explanation turns out to be hard to identify in Runciman’s treatment. The explanation is not given in Brown, either. One has to say that at least evolutionary theory is no worse than social psychological theory. This is then a book of medium value as a description of the recent history of the English part of Great Britain. But it fails to improve evolutionary theory, it tangles the tale with much talk about using the rights words, and the rate of self-citation to previous volumes is something of a scandal—too much vanity too publicly displayed. We need someone more like Hobsbawm or de Tocqueville to write this book for us.