SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Verstehen, Puritans, Protestant Work Ethic
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Thought analysis should never pre-decide or be purely idealist, nor should it be purely materialist. Wrote about all religions and didn"t just focus on one. In no way is he trying to identify the fundamental function/essence of religion like durkheim. Looking at the conditions and effects of social action. Can be no single definition for the function of religion. Weber on the religious origins of capitalism and rationality. Protestant sects: as in groups of protestants (primarily in the 18th century) Interested in how one"s beliefs translated into patterns of behaviour and material action (translates roughly as "understanding" or "interpretive") Sociology should transcend the false dichotomy between social actor"s. "ideas" (subjectivism) and their "experience" (objectivism) decide or be purely idealist, nor. In no way is he trying to identify the fundamental function/essence of. How action is understood by people who engage in it. Protestant sects: as in groups of protestants (primarily in the 18th.
