Anneke van Baalen, HIDDEN MASCULINITY, Max Weber's historical sociology of bureaucracy
Amsterdam 1994. CONTENTS
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: the search for explanation of the phenomenon of the
underrepresentation of women in positions of command in modern bureaucracies - 1
1. The feminist claim to equality with men versus the exclusion of women from the
brotherhood of equal men; the struggle with universalist concepts and the conceptual
separation of public and private life - 1
2. Two options to connect sex-defined to sex-neutral concepts - 3
3. Bureaucracy and masculine domination in Max Weber's Economy and Society - 6
Ch. 1. Max Weber's universalist sociology of bureaucracy: the contradiction between
public rationalism and private masculinism - 9
1. Separation of public and private life as a characteristic of Weber's ideal type of
bureaucracy - 9
2. Sociology as rational social science: the separation of facts and values and the creation of
the abstract individual as consequences of the separation of public and private life - 12
3. Adequate causation and chance - 15
4. Weber's rational construction of ideal types and its limits - 17
5. From the understanding of 'action orientations' to the construction of ideal types of
legitimate domination - 19
6. Ideal types of developments; the problem of causality in an irrational world; Weber's law of
unintended consequences; 'paradoxical causation' - 23
7. The contrast between formal and material rationality - 25
8. The origins of rational bureaucracy in Europe: Weber's unfinished analysis - 29
9. Resistances to rationalization: the modern family - 30
10. Conclusion: the irrationality of formal rationality - 33
Ch. 2. The Webers' private, sex-defined values - 34
1. Weber's separation of science and politics versus Weber-Schnitger's
value-bound science - 34
2. Introduction to Weber's political texts Parliament and Government and Politics as a
Vocation - 36
3. Nationalism and militarism; politics as independent leadership: as a fight for power in the
state, which is defined by its monopoly of physical violence - 37
4. Leadership and entrepreneurship; Beamtenherrschaft as anti-political force - 39
5. Parliamentary democracy; the superiority of the leadership in England and America - 40
6. Masculinism and the manly virtues - 42
7. The discussion on the 'matriarchy' - 44
8. Weber-Schnitger's Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung - 47
Ch. 3. Private versus public sphere: the origins of household and kin group - 53
1. Weber's shift from 'traditional social order' to 'traditional domination' and from there to
'patriarchal domination' - 53
2. Weber on matriarchy - 54
3. The household and its masculine authority - 57
4. Kinship as a public formation; the establishment by status contract of sister-trading
fraternizations - 59
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