Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Interpretation and Explanation -- 1. Aspects of Weber's Intellectual Field -- The German Historical Tradition -- The Threat of 'Positivism' -- The Revival of the Humanistic Disciplines -- 2. Weber's Adaptation of Rickert -- Rickert's Position and Its Problems -- Weber's Adaptation -- Against Naturalism, Holism, and Irrationalism -- 3. Singular Causal Analysis -- Objective Probability and Adequate Causation -- The Frameworks and Tactics of Causal Analysis -- Contemporary Formulations -- 4. Interpretation and Explanation -- From Interpretation to Causal Analysis -- Interpretive Sociology -- The Ideal Type and Its Functions -- 5. Objectivity and Value Neutrality -- The Two Components of Weber's Position through 1910 -- The Maxim and Ethos of Value Neutrality -- Contemporary Formulations -- 6. From Theory to Practice -- Neither Marxism nor Idealism -- From Methodological Individualism to the Comparative Analysis of Structural Change -- An Example of Weber's Practice: The Protestant Ethic -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.