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Anneke van Baalen, HIDDEN MASCULINITY, Max Weber's historical sociology of bureaucracy. 1994
Chapter 7 The city: new fraternities of patriarchs
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Chapter 7. The city: new fraternities of patriarchs
1. Winckelmann on the city as a form of non-legitimate domination; non-legitimate
domination as a breach with 'tradition' - 111
2. Revolutionary charisma and democratic dictatorship - 113 
3. The market as an impersonal association - 114
4. Market centers in general versus the occidental autonomous 'communes' and
'burgher-estates' - 116
5. The medieval western city as a breach with kinship tradition and the creation of new
associations of real men - 117
6. The patriciate: the breach with patrimonialism; the establishment of an
administration by honoratiores - 119
7. The breach with the patriciate: democracy and dictatorship; the establishment of
formal-rational law and administration - 120
8. Demilitarization of medieval citizens: the citizen as 'homo economicus' - 122
9. Transformation of patriarchy: from household to enterprise; individualization of
household dependents - 123
10. Excursus on the situation of city women: the contradictory developments of
emancipation and domestication - 126
11. The continuity of patriarchal domination and its contradiction with  bourgeois
freedom and equality - 128
12. England: unmilitary cities and the development of a national burgher estate - 129 
13. Charismatic legitimacy for burgher status groups: financial success - 130
14. The influence of the city on the rationalization of patrimonialism; the end of city
autonomy on the Western European continent - 134
1. Winckelmann on The City as non-legitimate domination; non-legitimate domination as a
breach with 'tradition'
The chapter on The City was not a part of the manuscript of ES; it was published separately
as an essay. Winckelmann, the editor of the post-war edition, decided to include it in his
reconstruction of ES. He found support for his decision in several remarks made by Weber in
his various works, but also in the original plan for ES.¹ 
In this plan, part 8, Domination, is subdivided into: 'a) The three types of legitimate
domination; b) Political and hierocratic domination; c) Non-legitimate domination. The
typology of cities.' They are followed by 'd) The development of the modern state' and 'e)
The modern political parties'; these last two categories were to be treated together. In
particular the parts entitled Sociology of the state and The theory of revolutions are
unfinished.
Weber intended to discuss the cities under 'c) non-legitimate domination.' According to
Winckelmann this was because he considered the cities' political autonomy their most
                                                
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WG p. XIX, XXVII.   
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