SOAN 2112 Lecture : Classical Theory Lecture Note
11 Mar 2012
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father was a hedonist, mother was a strict protestant. dueller and partier, highly academic, military service. 1897 suffered a breakdown, went to sanitarium. 1905 and 1909 major empiricalwork in social pych of industrial work and facyor yowrkers. 1910 cofounder of the german sociological society. unlike marx and durkheim he rejected optimist outcomes for transition to modernity, Weber projects a polar night of icy darkness rational and bureaucratic organizations of society iron cage . Modernity produces a technical society not a cultured society, a passionless coldly calculating rational actor. beginning of more technical testing of hypotheses, look at research as linked with experiementation. move towards studying people in relations to study new phenomenon. Industrialiation sociolohical paradigms became more microscopic, individualistic, and inductive. Social behaviourism, society seen from the individual perspective iwth a set of values looking at individual perspectives. * could be a question comparing weber and marx.
