SOC 3106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Charismatic Authority, Social Forces, Georg Simmel

Maybe oedipus complex: he killed his father! Struggles over sexual freedom and sexual repression: related with opposing parents, living in the period of the rise of feminism and modernism even tougher struggle. This sexual tension could have been an underlying force in the breakdown. Else else von richthofen (her sister frieda married d. h. Lawrence) business partner edgar jaffe"s wife, younger intellectual and feminist, his student: career choices. Conflict between political career and academic life. Doctrine of value-free: academic work ought to be above politics, yet, strong tendency to moralize about what he considered to be politically right. Lecture at friburg: results of the breakdown his neurosis turned out to be almost idea: without breakdown, no now-famous major sociological works, types of social action, zweckrational. Can be defined as action in which the means to attain a particular goal are rationally chosen.