SOCI-232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Inequality, World War I, Industrial Revolution
6 Mar 2019
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Interpretative sociology: using imagination/knowledge to understand what it"s like to be a human being with wants and desires in time frames. Placing them in historical context: along with marx and durkheim, weber is one of the most influential, classical, sociologists. Was french and grew up in a french intellectual position. Human beings are held together by internal forces and structures. Participant in the signing of the treaty of versailles after wwi. Weber was interested in central themes of modernity: capitalism. Industrialism: social inequality, growth of a nation state, development of cities, did not advocate/press for social revolution. Valued neutrality in social science: didn"t agree that capitalism in all forms was a bad thing. As a liberal intellectual, he believed capitalism was here to stay and it brought many good things to europe. His central enemy and point of criticism was not capitalism in itself: he consistently returned to his critique to the forces of rationalization.
