SOCIOL 3488 Lecture 3: Max Weber

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 3488
• Professor: Adam Long

Document Summary

Overview: best known and most influential sociological theorist, definition: sociology is a science concerning itself with the interpretative understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequence . Bureaucracy and capitalism: but rejected large-scale evolutionary accounts of society, often reduced collective concepts to patterns and regularities of individual actions, concerned with meaning formation at individual level meaning behind actions. Causality: probability that one event follows another, not just repetitions, parallels or constants in history, adopts a one-way causal model, not a dialectical model like marx, causality is multidimensional (interplay between economy, society, politics, stratification, religion, etc. ) Ideal type bureaucracy is compared to actual bureaucracy to find divergence and causes: as social world evolves, so should ideal types, varieties of ideal types. F. 1. historical ideal type: found in a specific historical period. F. 2. general sociological ideal type: found in a number of places and periods. F. 3. action ideal type: pure types of individually motivated action.