SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ideal Type, Mcdonaldization, Social Inequality
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Social action: a subjective meaning human attach to their actions. Ideal types: value/substantively rational action framed by larger meaningful values (appears to be irrational but formal irrationality is irrational) Instrumental/formal rational means-ends calculation, the technical aspects of action narrow cost-benefit analysis (the idea of what"s in it for me or what skills are required for any organization to function: traditional, affectual. All four elements in all action, but one type dominant we can use the ideal type idea and say that it is primarily one over the other. Pre-fabricated things are known as slickfickation or mcdonaldization of life (weber did not use this term) Islam, there is the reduction of multiple possibilities into one god/force (not saying that monotheism is superior, focusing on what happens when this transformation occurs) Weber: the puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to. Weber"s views: there are major differences between marx and weber, but they aren"t against one another.
