SOCI-232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Instrumental And Value-Rational Action, Protestantism, Unintended Consequences
21 Mar 2019
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Traditional: based on commitment to long held beliefs and practices. Affective: based on feeling. (action based on love, anger). Value rational: actions driven by commitment to a strong value (religious belief; human rights). Instrumental-rational action: actions guided by achieving specific goals; ends are more important than means. "kinds of actions, and the motives that drive them are influenced by the social structures/practices of a given period. " We design our actions to achieve as efficiently as possible a far off institutional goal. Do what you must do to achieve the long-term goal even if you don"t act on your values, which may contradict with the instrumentality required. You may have to abandon your values for the long-term goal. It leads to the capitalism as we know it today without any religious background. Martin luther posts his 95 thesis: calvin develops foundations of calvinism. Wants to explain the origins of capitalism; arising in western europe and colonial america.
