WEBER,MAX SOCIOLOGY OF THE STATE

Among the various intellectual projects which derived from Max Weber's collaboration on the Outline of Economics was a sociology of the stat e. Unlike other specialized sub-sociologies, however, no preliminary w ork can be found on the project, at least not under this title. The re ason is that, when preparing the first version of his Outline contribu tion, Weber still did not have a clear concept of the state, instead w eavering between a Tonnies-oriented conception and another one based o n Jellinek. This hesitation allowed the sociology of the state to rema in largely subsumed within the sociology of domination. Only in his se cond version did Weber arrive at a clearer position, one which led him to distinguish the sociology of the state more sharply from the socio logy of domination.