SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Charismatic Authority, Verstehen, Rationality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Capitalism was possible through a set of ideas (religion, particularly calvanism) Protestants are less oriented toward the family and are expected to take this toward the community instead unlike catholics. Marx saw religion as the opium of masses people became capitalists due to religion (weber) The issue is not materialistic, some trust too much in miracles rather than think of tomorrow, favor clan over their neighbor. It is their attitude that flourishes or stops a certain economy from occurring. Three types: traditional authority, charismatic authority (leader), bureaucratic authority (knowledge) One cannot just change a leader in order to make things better. Four elements: ideal types (main to be concerned about, social action, verstehen, values. Value freedom experts must separate their personal evaluations from their scientific pronouncement because such value judgments cannot be logically deduced from facts similarly politics must be protected from these experts. You stick to what you can see and what you can measure.