Alan Sica

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of Book Matters: The Changing Nature of Literacy (Transaction/Routledge, 2016), Max Weber and the New Century (Transaction/ Routledge, 2017), Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Routledge, 2017), and Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (California University Press, 1988; 2018). He is the editor of Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought ...See more

Alan Sica is Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Social Thought Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of Book Matters: The Changing Nature of Literacy (Transaction/Routledge, 2016), Max Weber and the New Century (Transaction/ Routledge, 2017), Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Routledge, 2017), and Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order (California University Press, 1988; 2018). He is the editor of Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought (Routledge, 1997), What is Social Theory? The Philosophical Debates (Blackwell, 1998), The Unknown Max Weber (Transaction Publishers, 2004), Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Present (Pearson/Routledge, 2004), Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences (Four Volumes, SAGE, 2006), Max Weber (Ashgate/Routledge, 2013) and The Anthem Companion to Max Weber (Anthem Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) and The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and former editor of the Sociological Theory and Contemporary Sociology journals. See less