POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Instrumental And Value Rationality, Making Money
13 Apr 2014
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Protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism/on bureaucracy max weber. Weber talks about rationality, our means of achieving objectivity (which is unitary); if we access this we will improve our society. Characterizes rationality as having a dark side (the opposite of enlightenment) Argues that the modern world is disenchanted and that science has destroyed our values. We are losing our ability to judge and evaluate things to act is to decide that one way of doing something is better (rationality); people follow what others are doing. Instrumental rationality: the expectations about the behaviour of other human being or objects. Intrinsic rationality: action is taken for intrinsic reasons (i. e. : ethical or religious motives) We are lost in instrumental rationality because we do not know why we do things and we cannot be autonomous without reasons for acting. In order for capitalism to thrive it needs constant growth and reinvestment.
